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by kevin_thibedeau 269 days ago
They're sabotaging non-Chrome browsers to drive people toward their platform with the strategically weakened extension API.
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I don't think that has any connection to the subject under discussion, which is about whether YouTube CPU performance would lead people to turn off adblockers. Not about getting people to switch to Chrome.
I believe their point is that people switching to Chrome _is_ turning off their adblocker.
Why would it? uBlock Origin Lite blocks ads on YouTube just fine on Chrome.
Do I hear boiling water?