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bayindirh 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and oth...

> Users should never had the power to block what we did in the first place.

-- Some prominent ad company which happens to run a search engine as a side business and build a web browser to make ad-targeting better for their customers.

kjkjadksj 3 months ago [–]

Its like they want their own web crawlers to be slow as hell

cle 3 months ago | | [–]

They'll carve out exceptions for themselves don't worry. They tried with Web Environment Integrity, it'll be back with a different name.

account42 3 months ago | | [–]

They do, it prevents any upstart competitors who can't afford that cost.

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