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But why is it shocking? Isn't it antithetical to what a browser is to have "content" (ads) be given special privileges?

• shortcake27 3y ago
  It’s shocking because Alphabet is in the business of making money at the expense of their users. They aren’t building Chrome because they believe in the open web, they build it to extract every last cent out of us. Ad blockers cost them millions, perhaps even billions, a year. Despite having the ability to stop it, they allow it to occur. And that is shocking from a capitalistic point of view.