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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because using Chromium and Chromium-based browsers reinforces Chrome's market share dominance which will harm comparability as more and more sites will only be tested against Chrome and in many cases refuse to serve pages to other browsers without user agent string fuckery.

It also cultivates dependence on Google for the extension ecosystem, etc