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I'm a Firefox user, but doesn't Chrome allow adblockers too? Both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are supported extensions on Chrome.
They do, but Chrome is actively trying to remove support for most advanced ad-blocking capabilities. Further, Google has no financial incentive to make their browser hospitable to ad blockers as Google makes most of their money from advertising.
Google has pushed some half-baked ideas for how the web could work without having to block ads. Ad blocks aren't best buddies with Google.
Thanks for the response and info. Another day where I'm glad to be a FF user.
Correct, but Chrome recently allowed ads through that weren't block-able by uBlock Origin or any other blocker at the time. That's when I switched back to Firefox, so I don't know if anyone figured out a way around it.