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> I'm sure the future without MV2 will have users launching .exe files to mod Chrome which is much much worse

Average internet (hence chrome user) don't even know what mod means. They don't care about ads (at least not enough to actively make any change). If the ads become too annoying they'll just skip the video or won't visit a website again and the people serving the ads know that.

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> Average internet (hence chrome user) don't even know what mod means. They don't care about ads

43% of internet users are blocking ads. It's not only tech people who are doing this. https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-ad-blockers/

Do we just assume nobody in that 43% group is using iOS?

Assuming that would be wrong. I use iOS and block ads agggressively.

> Average internet (hence chrome user) don't even know what mod means.

Which is even more problematic. Because they will literally click random exe people send to them. And also the reason Edge decides to default to reject random unpopular unsigned exe downloaded from internet.

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