On that topic, I would highly recommend you to switch to Kagi!

Search is still their workhorse for ad revenue. Less search, less users, in addition to users now just asking chatgpt and co, will hurt them well

Wouldn’t installing an adblocker basically hurt them as much / more as I still cost them compute but don't get them that sweet ad money?

	▲	JoshTriplett 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You think systems that have adblockers installed will keep being able to pass WEI / Google Cloud Fraud Defence checks? This is an attestation scheme. Attestation is about controlling what software you are and aren't allowed to run. If a future version of this allows desktop browsers rather than just phones, it will almost certainly try to do similar forms of attestation, and prevent you from controlling your own software stack.