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So you're the person on the evil side of the ad blocking arms race? That's not just zero positive good, that's actively making the world worse.
Thankfully it's not that bad, it's mostly making sure ads don't stop working because of normal reasons that any other website may stop working. Networking issues, bad code causing bugs, wrong config pushes, hardware failures, etc.
There's some other team working on circumventing ublock and other ad blocking systems
damn, was hoping you'd have some insight into this so you could reverse all the work your company does as a side project/hobby