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bpodgursky on April 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court

There's a more likely outcome -- Chrome will simply remove plugin capability if the adblocker install base gets too large.

Mobile Chrome already doesn't allow plugins, and this is definitely a huge part of the reason why.

this_user on April 22, 2015 [–]

Google could do that, but at the same time would likely lose a lot of users to Firefox the very same day.

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