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by Rygian 10 days ago
"Excuse me sir, would you mind carrying this extension that goes against your core business of selling ads?"

Publish it as a Firefox add-on instead.

2 comments

Yeah, this exactly. Google goes out of their way to be as unfriendly to adblockers as possible in Chrome. I don't know why anyone is still even using Chrome or why you would want to support them (by value-adding to their browser) with your efforts.
because it's still the fastest browser with the most intuitive UI, which is all the vast majority of people care about
Edge is better, with only downside is that MS keep pushing Bing on its users.
... And all your searches, preferences and and browsing history is linked to your Microsoft + Windows account so you can be targeted by ads better..

I have no idea why people chose Edge over Brave or Vivaldi.

Because Brave have no way to store my data ( Passwords and bookmarks) for futures install.
I can't think of literally anything meaningfully different about the Chrome UI from any other browser...
> all the vast majority of people care about

apparently, as demonstrated by this post, they care about ad-blockers too..

Yup – I think that Chrome’s Manifest V3 has severely limited the capabilities of ad blockers like uBlock Origin as well. I switched to Librewolf a while ago.