Depends on the product, some of them just uses stickers that are “deactivated”

Are you sure about that? I only use ublock origin and still get “can you not block our ads” popups sometimes

Steam banned having to watch an ad before being able to play a game last year

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-seemingly-bans-all-steam-games-that-require-watching-advertisements-to-play/1100-6529356/

Discord isn’t the one that got hacked and leaked the info, it’s whatever 3rd party they used.

What about the 15 minute game unboxing video that has a fire alarm going off the entire time where he never even actually unboxes the game