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uBlock Origin is GPL. Someone will just fork it and keep Chrome support. Welcome to the beauty of open-source.

If you spend a bit more time reading about the issue, the way Google is changing the API in Chrome will make the very methods uBO is using obsolete. They are crippling ad blockers at the browser level and no amount of forking will change that.

Edit: There seem to be few good alternatives at this point, now that almost every browser developer is using Chromium. Waterfox, Icecat and Iceweasel all have different things I like about them, but no one has 'the full package' any more. Google made sure of that.

I did read. Google will not completely block ad-blockers in a single step, they will do it gradually. Which is why parent suggested complete ad-blocker embargo on Chrome, to force the issue. But Google is too smart to fall into that trap, and even then, GPL saves the day.

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