I had recently gotten very sick of all of the ads on YouTube and decided I wanted to use an adblocker. I know most recommendations were for Firefox and ublock origin. I am lazy and am fine with chrome so I didn't do that. I installed 2 different ad blockers (Malwarebytes one and another that I don't recall) and fired up youtube. Played the videos without the ads, YouTube wasn't haply with me and gave the typical warning. I don't think much of it and just enjoy binge watching youtube for the rest of the night. The next day, I open up my computer and my internet isn't working. Computer sees the wifi, says it has a connection but is incredibly slow. I go through all of the diagnosis routes (rebooting PC and modem multiple times, reinstalling drivers, uninstallijg the adblocker plugins, clearing DNS cache, checked all my firewall settings, took out and put back in my wifi card) but to no avail. I turn off my PC for the day and do some other stuff. Come back the next day, internet seems to be working just like it was 2 days ago. Don't think much of it. Reinstall the one adblocker I was using (the malwarebytes one) and used my computer for the rest of the day as normal. I wake up today to log on and do some work and my internet is down again. The ONLY thing that changed between yesterday and today was the adblocker. I verified some things with my ISP that there were no weird things going on with my service the last couple of days. Is Google stopping my machines internet from working because I'm using an adblocker? Is that even possible?
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