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Google News: ad-blockers & privacy tools.

Author
jessamyn
Date
16 Aug 2019
Publisher
Twitter

“Today @googlenews joined the ranks of “Sites that don’t want you to use ad-blockers/privacy tools & just tell you that you’re offline if you do” (along with @TheAtlantic) I’m fine with “Turn off your ad-blocker to use this site,” less so with lying.”

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