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Soon, Google has even more leverage against adblockers (www.ghacks.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is this even legal? So now suddenly every chromium extension has to go through a play store style review? How is Google entitled to do this on their competitor's browsers?

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They can do it if a competitor has forked Chromium but not bothered to provide their own addon store. For example, Edge supports its own store plus Google, Vivaldi only supports Google