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The pig doesn't have any problem with the farmer until he shows up with the axe. Thus it is with chrome users.

That axe may just be Chrome's war on ad blockers.

I'd like to believe this, but what percentage of Chrome users actually use an ad blocker? My general feeling is that we on HN think ad blocking is a lot more common than it actually is.

It can't be that niche, or else why would they spend so much effort fighting ad blockers? They've surely done some research that uncovers a decent userbase of people who do use an ad blocker but will turn it off at a prompt.

No the question is how can you trust an ad blocker will be allowed to do its job in Chrome? Even without Manifest v33333 or whatever.

Yep, in my case it was disgust about the (apparently now abandoned) attestation efforts.

I worked at Google for 10 years, so my tolerance of them is higher than some, I guess. But also, now, my distrust.

Anyways, Firefox is fine. Nice, in fact.

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