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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by teeray on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:35AM (#38499265)
Perhaps that’s exactly why they don’t. They know there would be an exodus because they know what the install-base of ad blockers are in Chrome. Their market dominance is worth more than the marginal lost revenue from some ads being blocked.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by blibble on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:08PM (#38500034)
and after manifest v3 is shipped, the updates for "selected" extensions get slower and slower which makes them less and less effective

and they will just look slow instead of actively targeting ad-blockers

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