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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
(stackdiary.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They're still bad people, but this kind of blame has to run uphill. The devs only have the option of quitting, not necessarily of not doing what they're told.
That being said, I bet there are some Very Good Boys who enthusiastically and proactively suggest some evil shit to the execs.