[kcb]

> If Google actually wanted to cripple adblockers, why wouldn't just ban them outright and remove addons used for adblocking purposes from the Chrome extension store, or completely remove APIs that allow for content blocking? Why would they develop a new extension API that still allows you to block ads at all?

They already did all this on the most popular version of Chrome. It seems very reasonable to assume their desired state is to match that version across all platforms.