That's the engineering knowledge lost over the last 30 years costed out.
Making 2 reactors since 95 has some side effects, a lot of the senior engineers since then have retired, standards have changed, and new engineers need to learn.
It's often far easier to attack than defend.
Google has to find and block every way, ublock just has to make a new way to bypass the blocks.
It's currently working, but every few days youtube will tweak something, and sometime later (minutes to hours) there will be an ublock update for it.
Sometimes you have to wait a little longer, but this is the arms race.
It's also because the blocks form "Loss." The infamous Ctrl Alt Del comic.
Honest thoughts: I think fractured communities are what's causing the issue.
You end up with the same post on 5 different instances, each with a fraction of the engagement it would get in one place.
I wonder if some way of federating communities might be a better way, eg, c/photograohy could exist on both lemmy.world and lemm.ee, have submissions and comments from both.
It's stories like this that don't surprise me as much as make me ask: How the fuck do you store and process this much data to get anything useful out of it.
The people have spoken, and shockingly republicans spent a fuck load of the tax payers money to be sure that they didn't misspeak.
I'm sure that everyone who was raging at Sync over the last few days, stating that all software should be FOSS have all made significant contributions to the Lemmy devs.
FOSS is pretty bloody great, and one of the greatest things about the modern IT industry. But FOSS doesn't pay a mortgage.
To be clear: I have contributed to Lemmy, and will likely pay a lifetime fee for Sync sooner or later.
If you don't like how Google is able to do this, know it's because of it's market share, and you should just use Firefox.
So your answer to "Google is evil use another browser" is... if we all swap to Firefox google will kill it?
Google is keeping Firefox alive because 5% of all web users using Google search by default is pretty useful for them.
If you want to avoid that, simply use firefox and set your search to DuckDuckGo/Bing. If Google drops them, Microsoft have already shown a want to step up into that position.
Reminder: helldivers hasn't yet been re-enabled in the countries it was restricted from.