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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by _carbyau_ on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:10PM (#49516763)
> It's not just Google, the Internet stops existing.

Uh? No?

The internet existed before being overrun by corporate presence. It still does. Advertising pays a lot, but take the ad money away and let it scale accordingly.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by WarmWash on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:33PM (#49516896)
The worst thing about the modern internet is people's innate expectation that others will work/pay to entertain or inform them for free.

What existed in 1993 was a cultural blip, it's never coming back, so let it go.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by _carbyau_ on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:10AM (#49518197)
> What existed in 1993 was a cultural blip, it's never coming back, so let it go.

Ha! I am under no illusion it is coming back. But even though it flows like the unstoppable tides, ad money is not a requirement.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by pocksuppet on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:19PM (#49527582)
There's no expectation.

It's like free software. When it exists you can use it. When it doesn't exist you can't demand anyone to make it exist. And yet we still have free software. Not as much any more though as a lot of it changed to open source.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by account42 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:23AM (#49534298)
Ads are a cultural blip that will disappear too. Let it go.
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