• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

    Think antitrust may have had something to do with their change of heart?

    The laughability of preventing content filtering for security reasons should have been so obvious that not even Google could argue that one with a straight face.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Just because they make a changing chromium doesn’t mean that everyone that has forked chromium needs to take that change.