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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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