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.
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.
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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.
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.
Outside of uBlock Origin the popular ad blockers are business (see pay for acceptable adds), there's no way they abandon chrome.
Chrome launched without any support for extensions. chrome.webRequest didn't appear until the end of 2013.