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Let me tell you what will happen:

- Google creates built-in adblocker that allows google ads

- Google removes the adblockers from Google Store due to some reason

- You don't have an adblocker anymore

The fact that Chrome automatically disables extensions that don't exist in the web store, in the name of security, is probably not a good sign. If it is for security, then advanced users should've been given a way to bypass this restriction, but it doesn't exist. If the adblockers get removed from the store, there would be no easy way to use them without abandoning Chrome.

Chrome is open-source, you could use an alternative chrome based browser, like srware iron.

- You switch to another browser that allows ad blockers or has a good one built-in.

Ah, but not when all the (Google-powered) apps and services you use only work on Google's browser.

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