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Really? I mean, pick one of a hundred. They are deprecating APIs that would block the interception and are ignoring community pushback.

But since you asked...

https://bgr.com/2019/05/31/google-chrome-update-ad-blockers-...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-t...

https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterpr...

But I mean, that was a 2 second search. Citations are indeed hard to come by...

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Good reason for about 5-10% of the internet users with adblockers to switch to Firefox. Which kind of hurts the monopoly argument. Not that I support google being more and more monopolistic these days.

I still don’t think the browser market is a good example right now.

There’s far better examples than this.

i'm sure a lot of people that would otherwise have been making browsers decided chrome is "good enough" and assumed google wasn't likely to do anything to scummy like this. monopoly is maybe not the best word choice but its overwhelming popularity and use has given it a lot of inertia and influence over the direction of the web

Prediction: In a year, adblocking extensions on Chrome will still block the same percentage of ads from Google's networks as they do on Firefox. Care to make a bet?

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