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Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox (www.techradar.com)

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[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You would hope so but some chromium forks still try maintain their own ad blockers. And I've seen people just jump between what ones still work, or those few who just give up on ad-blocking all together.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

There are also projects like qutebrowser which allow external programs to be plugins. In case of qutebrowser it uses the Chromium open source platform as rendering engine, etc. but completely relies on external Python scripts for plugins (including ad blocking).

If Firefox goes down the Chrome route with their forced advertisement I can totally see something like this happening.