Check the date in the screenshot.

Yes, and use the contents it has scanned to sell to advertisers.

When I read the title, I assumed this was an overreaction to a stink-bomb prank, and then I read how long he’d been doing this for:

…over a nearly monthlong span

For those curious what “adblockers said really happened”:

[AdGuard] suggested that the issue may have been linked to popular community-maintained filter lists like EasyList and uBlock’s Quick Fixes.

A new filter rule added to EasyList on August 11, 2025 targeted telemetry requests thought to be tied to YouTube’s view attribution and analytics.

That rule remained in place until September 10, when it was temporarily disabled.

A similar change was added to uBlock’s Quick Fixes on September 10 and removed on September 17.

It’s all about marketing. “This smart fridge uses quantum AI technology to do neural scans of the contents of your fridge, allowing it to adjust the temperature and humidity perfectly for your food, making it crisp and moist!”

This would be a lot more accurate if Windows users weren’t constantly complaining about Windows.