Blockifycomeback briefThe stores went dark. The warnings looked scary. You deserved more than a vague notice—so here are the receipts, the fight, and the code.
THE 45-SECOND TIMELINE
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The name
A notice identifying Spotify AB as the rights owner challenged the use of “Spotify” in Blockify’s old extension title.
The app uses the trademarks of Spotify AB … in the app’s Title.
The listing
Google’s notice flagged repeated mentions of Spotify across Blockify’s English, Greek, and Turkish store descriptions.
Having excessive and / or irrelevant keywords in the item’s description.
The purpose
Another notice treated “ad blocking” and “ad and general promotions” as unrelated functionality. We saw one job: stop ads from interrupting people.
Stated: “ad blocking” · Additional: “ad and general promotions”
THE SIZE OF THE FIGHT
Every crowd below is drawn to the same workforce scale. Blockify is the tiny green point.
ALL THAT CORPORATE SCALE.AGAINST FOUR PEOPLE.
FOLLOW THE INCENTIVES
Their business is interruptions. Ours is stopping them.
Google made $294.7 billion from advertising in FY2025—73% of Alphabet’s $402.8 billion total revenue.
Alphabet’s own filing identifies technologies that block ads online as a business risk. When the same ecosystem controls Chrome and its store, the financial incentive to restrict ad blockers is hard to ignore.
Rules shouldn’t be misused based on profits.
That incentive does not prove why any one decision was made—and it does not make vague, disproportionate, or unfair enforcement fair.
THE MONEY ENGINE
THE STRUCTURAL CONFLICTAd-funded giants control the gate ad blockers must pass.
THE SEVEN-YEAR SQUEEZE
An ad blocker is not a policy problem for them. It is a revenue problem.
We were not the first.Google names the new platform, then rolls it out with browser-managed declarative blocking rules.
Then the Chrome Web Store stops accepting every category of new Manifest V2 submission.
Viewers using ad blockers are told to allow ads or subscribe to Premium; continued ad blocking may result in blocked video playback.
Chrome progressively disables them. By July 2025, Manifest V2 is off for every user in every channel.
Google removes the remaining MV2 listings; uBlock Origin’s own repository marks Chrome as “Removed.”
Google flags Blockify’s listing keywords and treats one ad-blocking job as two unrelated purposes.
THE METHOD CHANGED.THE TARGET DIDN’T.
Blockify’s code is public. Review what it does, follow the logic, and tell us when something can be better.
Inspect Blockify on GitHubPublic code beats a private promise.TO THE BLOCKIFY COMMUNITY
Your support keeps us going.
REMOVED → REBUILT → RETURNED
Not without a fight!
Our old users are still out there.
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