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		gress on Sept 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What we break when we fix ad blocking Separating out 'Desktop Chrome' from Android makes this a deliberate Apple's to Oranges comparison. They are both Google products. You're free to run 'Desktop Chrome' or Firefox on Apple's 'Deskrop' computers. Nothing anticompetitive there.

makomk on Sept 20, 2015 [–]

Desktop Chrome is the only version of Chrome that actually supports adblocking. The Android version doesn't have any add-on support at all.

gress on Sept 22, 2015 | [–]

So Apple is putting user freedom ahead of advertiser freedom in this case, whereas Google is siding with the advertisers for obvious reasons.

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