[directional]

This is an excellent opportunity for Microsoft to distinguish their Chromium-based Edge from Chrome. Leave the webRequest API intact, ensure that these adblocking extensions are available from their own store, and invite other Chromium-based browsers to use their store instead of Google's.

[nine_k]

This would be a very funny inversion!

2004: M$ is so greedy, Google is so pro-user.

2019: Google is so greedy, MS is so pro-user.