Did you know that Chrome ships a (degraded) version of the famous EasyList adblocking filter list pioneered by AdBlock/AdBlockPlus (originally they were Firefox add-ons)? But not to block ads, of course! See thread: down-thread explains this irony, up- script provenance lossage.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @ar_io_network @brave
Sure! So, a fun trivia bnit is that Chrome ships a simplified version of EasyList as part of a system they call AdTracker. AdTracker checks URLs of iframes and remote scripts on the stack against EasyList to determine if something ad-related is running source.chromium.org/chromium…
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Yup, a great talk with details here. And we do actually consider it an ad blocker, just one that attempts to raise the quality for everyone without hurting publishers! piped.video/Nv8WPbjPZjg

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