CaptObvious

Exactly.

It's much the same as creators in Second Life who don't want to sell in the Opensim metaverse. I get where they're coming from in terms of protecting a recurring revenue stream, but if the customer has already paid for the product once, under first sale doctrine, they have the right to continue using it.

Hence “and enjoy it whenever and wherever I want.” If they maintain control, it’s not sold. It is, at best, rented.

Fortunately, there are often tools to enforce the first sale doctrine.

And this is why I never “buy” media online. If I can’t own the media and enjoy the content whenever and wherever I want, it’s rented. I may be ok with that, but I never let them claim that it was a sale.

Anyway….

I only use Chrome for work because our IT dept likes it. This will make it worthwhile to forgo their support and just use Firefox full time.

Same here. I’d completely forgotten that I had it running

I had another extension that was also modifying their ads. That may have been the trigger.

That could’ve been my issue as well.

I’m sure they’ve figured out how to wring as much money as possible from users and creators.

That could’ve been my issue as well.

I’ve been getting them on FF, but now that someone else mentioned it, I also had a second extension that was blocking ads. It may have been that one that was triggering the popup.

Yup