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Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary by pritambaral on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:44AM (#21504749)
> I'm happy to let a few ads slip through ...

But should that mean letting the fox guard the henhouse though? The problem here is that the largest ad provider also controls the largest ad display platform (i.e., Chrome), and is using the latter to benefit the former.

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Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary by JustSomeNobody on Monday November 11, 2019 @09:21AM (#21504992)
Ironically, developers helped create the henhouse they’re now worried the fox might get, by only using Chrome.
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