> but Google would only benefit from ad/tracker blockers going away. That's a gross mischaracterization of the situation. There are far, far more extensions th

> but Google would only benefit from ad/tracker blockers going away. That's a gross mischaracterization of the situation. There are far, far more extensions than just ad blockers. Google could trivially block ad blockers without killing all extensions, and ad blockers can survive just fine without extensions (pihole being the obvious example of one such alternative). Google even has their own rather large suite of extensions: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/ext/15-by-google?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/ext/15-by-google... None of any of this has anything to do with ad blockers nor some hidden agenda to kill them. It's about how selling a hobby project can be disastrous for users, and what (if anything) Google/Mozilla should be doing to prevent those hobby developers from wanting to sell in the first place. Personally I think that's treating the symptom and not the cause, and a better policy would be something like Google or Mozilla preventing updates to extensions whose backing developer has changed. Although that would be hard to enforce.