[ohazi]

I hope the ad blockers completely abandon Chrome when this change gets pushed through, rather than attempting to work around it.

Google is using a slow-frog-boil approach to re-desensitize their users to ads, and it's working. The only thing that will work here is a big splash of cold water to the face.

Maybe Chrome losing all of its ad-blockers overnight will finally start making a dent.

[cptskippy]

Unfortunately the owners of the most popular adblocker have successfully created a revenue generating business out of adblocking and aren't about to abandon Chrome.

[hnaccy]

Outside of uBlock Origin the popular ad blockers are business (see pay for acceptable adds), there's no way they abandon chrome.

[pvg]

Chrome launched without any support for extensions. chrome.webRequest didn't appear until the end of 2013.