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"Source" he asks as the perpetually incompetent and straight up evil Chrome team deletes powerful APIs with no good replacement that just so happen to be the exact ones that blocks Google's extensive data collection and tracking.

Feel free to be in denial about why those crippled APIs have come to be.



See that's just completely wrong. Google Ads are trivial to block with declarativeNetRequest. They're as plain jane simple as it gets. If any ad company will benefit, it'll be the exotic ones that are more difficult to block.




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