My hunch is that ad blocking is a huge threat to Google. So if they can control the browser space... I still don't know why IE doesn't ship with ad blockers.

My hunch is that ad blocking is a huge threat to Google. So if they can control the browser space... I still don't know why IE doesn't ship with ad blockers. Would it hurt them? Perhaps in the short run. But in the long run, it would do far more damage to G.