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Lol at George thinking _they_ are gonna let you run your own model. They don't even let me run my own adblocker!

They still do, you just choose not to explore your options. Therefore you still have that freedom. Go to Firefox and get your adblocker back.

What do you mean by that? You can certainly write and run your own adblocker or chose from variety of third-party offerings.

You are complaining about Google dropping a more powerful adblocking API in favor of more restricted one from Chrome? No one is preventing you from using other browsers or modifying Chromium source code in whatever way you like.

It is not difficult to imagine that freedom disappearing soon, under the veil of security. It will not be long before Google's remote attestation becomes commonplace, and then it won't be long until the websites you care about start using it and excluding unsigned browsers. The wheels are in motion already and AI is going to speed this all up: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/googles-new-remote-att...

Exactly! Thank you!

"Exactly" what? That by "don't let me" you meant "maybe sorta kinda woulda not let me do that in the future and I can't be halfassed to install FireFox"?

Why won't FF and Safari be signed?

I'm sure they will, but any user extension that interferes with the DOM (as an adblocker does) will break remote attestation, so the website will reject your request.

I haven't seen any browser attestation proposals prescribing that and I don't see any reason for Mozilla and Apple to support that. Care to provide references?

> Lol at George thinking _they_ are gonna let you run your own model.

Of course "they" won't let you. The questions that one should rather ask for oneself are:

- How much are you willing to fight for this?

- How much are you willing to nevertheless run your own model, ignoring the laws and regulations?

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