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Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened (www.techradar.com)
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[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

MS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

MS Edge allows extensions that Chrome does not. It still fully supports uBlock Origin.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did not know that - but surely since it's based on Chrome, that means they're going to have to follow suit at some point?

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Chromium browser code is open source.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I thought the changes were to do with manifest v3, and that was part of chromium. I didn't realise that was added to chrome after the fact.