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<blockquote data-quote="Arequire" data-source="post: 1067364" data-attributes="member: 59283">Probably not, but I&#039;d like to think I wouldn&#039;t create an ad blocking company that&#039;s potentially dependent on the world&#039;s biggest advertising company for it&#039;s financial security. That&#039;d be a blatant conflict of interest.Why? It&#039;s not eyeo&#039;s job to protect YouTube&#039;s revenue stream.Look it&#039;s cool if you think that there should be some kind of middle ground (I personally have nothing against advertising as a business model, just the baggage that comes with it), but eyeo is being categorically misleading here. They&#039;re breaking the agreement they have with their users by refusing to do what they literally advertise they do, then justifying it with moral grandstanding and erroneous claims. There&#039;s a reason there&#039;s such a furore over YouTube attempting to ban ad blockers: users consider YouTube ads inherently annoying, and I&#039;ve no doubt eyeo&#039;s products will lose users if they continue to capitulate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arequire, post: 1067364, member: 59283"] Probably not, but I'd like to think I wouldn't create an ad blocking company that's potentially dependent on the world's biggest advertising company for it's financial security. That'd be a blatant conflict of interest. Why? It's not eyeo's job to protect YouTube's revenue stream. Look it's cool if you think that there should be some kind of middle ground (I personally have nothing against advertising as a business model, just the baggage that comes with it), but eyeo is being categorically misleading here. They're breaking the agreement they have with their users by refusing to do what they literally advertise they do, then justifying it with moral grandstanding and erroneous claims. There's a reason there's such a furore over YouTube attempting to ban ad blockers: users consider YouTube ads inherently annoying, and I've no doubt eyeo's products will lose users if they continue to capitulate. [/QUOTE]

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