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He's fairly active and popular on Twitter, and is opinionated about cryptography, blockchain, etc.

Did he ever say why he lost faith? Cause at least Chromium has hardware acceleration for video decoding on Linux. The story about ablock extensions being blocked was completely false.

Yeah, he wrote a whole blog post about it.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-l...

OMG, that is so easy to disable. He might as well be complaining about Firefox Sync.

>The story about ablock extensions being blocked was completely false.

What about it was false? Developers made it clear that the changes would neuter many ad blocking extensions, and Google actually backtracked due to the outrage (to a position that still prevents effective ad blocking).

No, they didn't make it clear that it would do anything to ad-blocking extensions, only in their current for would they have to make changes which are actually supposed to speed up adblocking. Poor developers had to make some changes because Chromium wanted to improve things. They didn't backtrack due to the outrage either. They are still moving forward with the improvements and Firefox crowd is still lying about what is actually going on. Guess they are looking for new users to exploit with their 0days.

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