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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've never even heard of it...

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

The short of it is that Google wants to prevent ad blockers from working in Chromium based browsers.

I don't remember if this is also planned for v3 or unrelated, but there was also talks of essentially DRM-ing the internet to block non-Chromium browsers.

[–] red@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it'll be more common knowledge when it hits next summer and current era of adblocking seizes to exist on Chrome.