An interesting question is, could google have successfully banned adblockers as a matter of policy once it published an API? It's not like there is an Apple-es

An interesting question is, could google have successfully banned adblockers as a matter of policy once it published an API? It's not like there is an Apple-esque chokehold on extension publication, and nobody signs a TOS agreement or breaks an EULA seal to use Google. They could undoubtedly refrain from publishing adblockers in any google-hosted gallery, but that's a rather different thing.