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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by cfarm on Sunday June 09, 2019 @01:23PM (#20140481)
When Chrome did this they quickly highlighted how much control they have over what people view. Privacy focused open browsers will gain marketshare because of it.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by techntoke on Sunday June 09, 2019 @05:48PM (#20142154)
What did Chrome do exactly? Cause they never said they were disabling ad-blocker extensions. That was the grapevine effect from the Firefox crowd.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by cfarm on Sunday June 09, 2019 @09:19PM (#20143080)
I was referring to this, but it looks like there was an update to the article saying that it might not block everything https://www.tomsguide.com/us/chrome-block-ad-blockers,news-3...
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