[rvnx]

I don't think so. Google often knowingly and intentionally breaks apps (through API deprecation) because it's more convenient for them or that it is costly to maintain. Nothing criminal there.

Same for Easylist, if they decide that a quota of 100000 requests per IP+UA per day is the maximum, that's their choice. They owe nothing to the consumers of the lists.

That being said; Easylist actually benefits from being distributed in many apps; it is really valuable to influence / control adblocking lists, so the more flexible they are to the browser developers, the better (I guess).

[mkmk3]

I think you misunderstood what parent was referring to. The idea was to poison the block list so that any browser matching their criteria (user agent belonging to DDOSing browser) would block everything.