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It’s just big-corp tone deafness, eg Google engineers have pointed out that you can use

defaults write com.google.Chrome URLBlocklist -array-add https://example.com

to block sites without understanding that this is fundamentally different from adding this to browser UX.

A lot of Google engineers struggle with the conflict of interest where the world’s #1 advertising network — by far — is making it more difficult to block ads in the world’s #1 browser, which they just happen to own. Good job guys. /s



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