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The first thing I thought when I saw Chrome was that they want to stop/override programs like AdBlock for their search ads.

If that's the case, I go to filtering proxies at my end.

Oh yeah! I forgot about those. Now I can use Opera. Well, I could if I used Windows. Any auto-updating filtering proxies for Linux?

That would be the most ridiculous reason they would want to develop a completely new browser for.

Not necessarily. AdBlock is the most popular extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:a...

440,000 people download it a week. That's a lot of people not even seeing their search ads!