Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome?

Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by dpapathanasiou on Thursday September 04, 2008 @04:42PM (#295180)

It'll be interesting to see whether or not Google would allow ad-blocking on its own browser.

Talk about killing the golden goose.

Then again, they may decide the number of people who knew about and actually use ad block plugins is relatively small, so they may allow them.

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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by sjs382 on Thursday September 04, 2008 @05:02PM (#295200)

Google's code is bsd-licensed. So while you might never have ad-blocking in Chrome, you can keep it in a derivative all you like ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by davidw on Friday September 05, 2008 @02:40AM (#295630)

And this strategy works out really well, too. 99% of people, the kind who will actually click on the ads, will just download Google's version and be happy. Hackers will switch to the ad-block-enabled version without any problems, and they wouldn't have clicked on the ads in any case.

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Re:Ask HN: Will you be switching to Chrome? by silentbicycle on Thursday September 04, 2008 @04:59PM (#295195)

Even if Google doesn't, a person/group with sufficient time and skills can just fork the whole browser and add it. It's under a BSD license.

Personally, I'd rather see the porting finished first.

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