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So desktop chrome and Firefox is also attacking the open web? They have had ad lockers in their app stores for a very long time.

• makomk 11y ago
  Neither desktop Chrome nor desktop Firefox are pushing their own, competing method of distributing content that can't be adblocked and that they take a 30% cut on. Also, Firefox at least didn't intentionally add support for adblocking, they just had a powerful add-on system and didn't deliberately stop it. Apple is deliberately adding support for it on the web whilst pushing people to distribution channels they control that they don't allow adblocking on, and that they get a cut of the revenue from.
  • gress 11y ago
    Separating out 'Desktop Chrome' from Android makes this a deliberate Apple's to Oranges comparison. They are both Google products. You're free to run 'Desktop Chrome' or Firefox on Apple's 'Deskrop' computers. Nothing anticompetitive there.
    • makomk 11y ago
      Desktop Chrome is the only version of Chrome that actually supports adblocking. The Android version doesn't have any add-on support at all.
      • gress 11y ago
        So Apple is putting user freedom ahead of advertiser freedom in this case, whereas Google is siding with the advertisers for obvious reasons.