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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...Oh, no! Anyway. Just giving people one more reason to finally make the switch to Firefox or something different.

Google Chrome warns about disabling uBlock Origin. I warn Google Chrome that they're being a little bitch & they're going to lose users.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, they are about to lose the $0 that uBlock origin users bring!

They know they will lose users and they don't care. They will make much more per user selling ads than before. Google is an ad company. They're not a browser company, or a mobile OS company, or an office suite company. It's all about ads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not necessarily. They still get money from selling user data. So they likely still care about losing users who use adblocking to at least some degree.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Google doesn't sell user data, they sell user eyeballs. There's no incentive for Google to sell user data since they're an ad company and the only people who would buy the data are competitors.