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Probably, or it'll be nerfed to fuck. I'm sure someone will make a fork off Chromium and leave it enabled.

Browser builders, this is your cue: if advertising is not your business, offer an ad blocker. Firefox became popular (in my personal experience) because it came with a popup blocker by default.

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That's exactly what Brave is doing. Chromium fork with a built-in native adblocker that doesn't depend on MV2 at all, and plans to continue supporting MV2 even when it is removed from Chromium entirely.

> Firefox became popular (in my personal experience) because it came with a popup blocker by default.

Yeah. Firefox should ship with uBlock Origin by default too. They're almost doing that on mobile since uBlock Origin is one of few allowed extensions.

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