@nileane People are extremely credulous when it comes to “enshittification.” If it goes viral that Chrome is killing ad blockers, that “fact” will spread like crazy, especially on Mastodon.

Articles like this don’t help: https://www.pcmag.com/news/googles-next-chrome-update-will-finally-kill-support-for-ad-blockers

> Manifest V3 doesn’t explicitly ban ad blockers, but it does “cap the number of filtering rules an extension can apply and eliminate the dynamic blocking that makes tools like uBlock Origin effective against rapidly evolving ad-delivery systems.”

I don’t know the ins and outs of it, and I don’t know how much of this article is true, but my hunch is that it’s a misunderstanding that people are eager to believe, blog about on their own, further muddying the facts, etc.