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The difference isn’t just in the network calls, it’s the relinquishing of the blocking to Chrome itself. The Lite extension is essentially reduced to just providing a blocklist to Chrome, and hopes that Chrome will honor the blocklist.

Google is surgically trying to dismantle adblocking, first by removing all the tools from the users under the guise of “it’s dangerous”, and then shutting it down by rendering them so ineffective they’re useless.



A blocklist with a limited size. I believe its 50 rules

it's also trivial for anti-adblockers to dynamically try alternative domains till they find one that isn't blocked.


50 lists, 330 thousand rules in total; not 50 rules




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