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I too fear AdBlock will eventually fail, not because it will be legally banned (on what basis??) but because Chrome will kill it and other browsers will die. Y
by bambax 5y ago
I too fear AdBlock will eventually fail, not because it will be legally banned (on what basis??) but because Chrome will kill it and other browsers will die.
You seem to welcome it; I think it would be a great catastrophe.
- gaius_baltar 5y agoThis can be a new selling point for Firefox: "the browser that allow you to block ads"
- jart 5y agoIt's more likely governments will make it illegal to not use an adblocker. For example the security community is now having adblock installed on normie browsers as a matter of policy. If everyone starts doing that and the companies whose survival depends on ads react in a way that ends the free ride for the technical class, things will really hit the fan. Imagine all the smartest programmers in the world wake up one morning and are forced to use the unfiltered internet. We'd all switch to SerenityOS within the fortnight and the old regime would skulk along like a brainless beast for a few decades while Andreas Kling becomes emperor of the world.