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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by tacosx on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:10PM (#20046134)
People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected.

It's time to eliminate Google from your life as much as possible if you haven't already. Too many wake up calls. They are not a tech company, they are data monopolists. Stop giving them your data.

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by estranhosidade on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:59PM (#20046594)
Funny how sometimes what everybody was waiting to happen just.... happens
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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by marktangotango on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:57PM (#20046975)
Particularly satisfying for those of us who never left Firefox for this very reason!
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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by mehrdadn on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:24PM (#20048086)
> People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected.

Would you happen to have any links to previous discussions anticipating this exact endgame?

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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by Tepix on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:55AM (#20048986)
Here‘s a german article from 2008 https://heise.de/-202799
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Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t... by mehrdadn on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:27AM (#20049101)
I see hardly anything even about advertising in there? Let alone anything about ad blockers. It's just generic statements/quotes about monopoly, privacy, browser wars, etc... and a few notes about how promoting the web helps promote Google's products/services indirectly too, which helps their bottom line... which Google itself has been saying openly since forever. There's nothing there particularly predictive of this particular chain of events.
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