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It's interesting if it's true, but it could also be a glitch. I could see taking it off the front page, but manually changing the download count would be a bit
by chaosmachine 17y ago
It's interesting if it's true, but it could also be a glitch. I could see taking it off the front page, but manually changing the download count would be a bit much.
- codexon 17y agoAnd why would you think Google wouldn't do that? Advertisement money is their lifeblood. Not that I agree with this, but it wouldn't be illegal or against their TOS to do such a thing.
- benologist 17y agoI would not be even slightly surprised if they went out of their way to tuck ad blocking into a little niche somewhere that requires several clicks to find - it's definitely easier to imagine than them promoting their own platform as easily ad-less when almost every dollar they make comes from ads.
- dchest 17y agoIt's either a glitch or they began filling the "Popular" column with random results. I reloaded the page a few times and got different results there, one included some ad blocking extension. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/HT1R9.png http://imgur.com/HT1R9.png
- lallysingh 17y agoAccording to a comment (the comment, actually) they're just rotating the popular results some.