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Implementing what amounts to ad blocking in your browser which all extensions must necessarily be mere lists of what to block rather than complex programs that examine and modify data IS the embrace.

Extending it would involve either implementing acceptable ads functionality that was optional.

Extinguish is making it mandatory in order to be listed on the chrome web store and allowing the browser to transmit some certification that it doesn't have an extension installed that would modify data in transit to ensure "security" making it hard to use the modern web with a browser that didn't transmit such.

Locally installing extensions is only for development so that any such modification will effectively break such a seal and make it impossible for you to view $SOME_RANDOM_GOOGLE_ADS_USING_SITE which will complain your browser is insecure and refuse to work kind of like sites presently block adblockers but with browser support making it much harder to avoid.



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