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... and yet another downside to Microsoft moving to Chromium.
by greymeister 8y ago
... and yet another downside to Microsoft moving to Chromium.
- metalliqaz 8y agoWhy would Microsoft be driving this change? Google is the company with the huge advertising business.
- tivert 8y agoBecause by moving to Chromium, Microsoft increased Google's control of the browser ecosystem by killing one of the last remaining competitors to it. Now only Firefox is left. Before they dropped Edge, a move like this would have been a great marketing opportunity for Microsoft: "Come to Edge, where your ad blocker still works."
- fantyoon 8y agoI assume they meant that with Microsoft moving to Chromium there is less competition and thus less reason to fear that the change will hurt Chrome.
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- blibble 8y agopresumably they are capable of putting in the engineering work to restore the old feature then they'd be able to sell their browser as having ad blocking when chrome doesn't the market would take care of the rest