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Exactly correct. The advertising company doesn’t want unlimited ad blocking on their ad driven browser.

Googles brand is becoming more and more toxic, from my perspective.

for those looking to switch to firefox (as I did) do be warned that although I make no claim as to whether its more nor less evil than google, firefox does have various ad-related perks sometimes turned on by default... sometimes turned on suddenly with an update a la windows. Firefox in theory lets you cut it all out, but just expect that cutting is needing to be done to get there

Recommend tabs being one of them. Hadn't noticed it until recently when it started recommending Facebook. Yuck.

Thankfully you can turn it off.

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