Comment by antisthenes

Probably because the entire world gets its information through Chrome, and since Chrome is becoming increasingly anti adblock, the danger is that billions of people will now be force fed ads.

Besides, plenty of governments had similar hard-ons against MS & IE in the early 2000s, people just have very short memories in the digital age.

> Apple / Microsoft / Amazon / … skate by without getting the same beat-down.

Their time will come. Defending something bad by pointing at others and saying they are also doing it is typically low-effort reactionism.