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It'll be interesting to see whether or not Google would allow ad-blocking on its own browser. Talk about killing the golden goose. Then again, they may decide
by dpapathanasiou 18y ago
It'll be interesting to see whether or not Google would allow ad-blocking on its own browser.
Talk about killing the golden goose.
Then again, they may decide the number of people who knew about and actually use ad block plugins is relatively small, so they may allow them.
- silentbicycle 18y agoEven if Google doesn't, a person/group with sufficient time and skills can just fork the whole browser and add it. It's under a BSD license. Personally, I'd rather see the porting finished first.
- sjs382 18y agoGoogle's code is bsd-licensed. So while you might never have ad-blocking in Chrome, you can keep it in a derivative all you like ;)
- davidw 18y agoAnd this strategy works out really well, too. 99% of people, the kind who will actually click on the ads, will just download Google's version and be happy. Hackers will switch to the ad-block-enabled version without any problems, and they wouldn't have clicked on the ads in any case.
- cypress-hill 18y agoapparently coming in IE8 i would do the same in MS's position - if they can't compete in the market, destroy it. if anyone complained to regulators, MS could claim the IE is the last browser to implement ad blocking