Here's a progress report on the google attack on my use of ad blockers for interested readers.
For a full week, to avoid the google blocking on firefox, I used the palemoon browser (a firefox derivative) exclusively on youtube. It has the ad blocker "Adblock Lattitude" built into it, and I left the browser in its default state not adding any other add on. It performed flawlessly with no ads appearing and everything chosen on youtube came down as expected.
After that week, which was two days ago, I revisited the youtube site with the firefox browser which included the Ghostery add-on enabled, and the google attacks did not appear any more. For the last two days now with around 6 hours a day on youtube from this computer, over a number of users, the attacks have not reappeared.
Speculatively, the experience of google's attacks nearly a week and half ago may have been just a campaign waged at that time which caught my usage of their youtube site. Or, again speculatively, I guess it's possible that google noticed that after its attacks, that this particular firefox browser no longer visited its site for a week after having been attacked, so it judged the attacks as counter-productive and withdrew the attack. Google is known for its analytics and feedback statistics. Of course I can't say anything about those matters, but it's been interesting.
