There's never been any reason to think Google wouldn't pull something like this with Chrome though. Which is why people should be advocating switching to Firefox.

> Which is why people should be advocating switching to Firefox.

Pity about Mozilla having recently switched to the dark side themselves, becoming an advertising company as well.

Well, if it’s okay for them, then that is still their decision.

It's what google was counting on, user ignorance and apathy, to defeat adblockers.

I mean sure but ad blocking is still a killer feature. If users see ads the frog jumps out of the pot.

> Well, if it’s okay for them, then that is still their decision.

A decision reached because both

    informed & consent

are minimized as much as possible. This is a core method of unethical marketing.

it will convince more people to switch

Frankly, this just gives more reasons to switch.

Sadly, most people don't care or understand these "tech whiz" things. Here in our little corner of EU, I see massive Chrome adverts everywhere about how convenient it is to save your password in chrome password manager, sync bookmarks across devices, how all other browsers are baddies leaking your private details and chrome can save your data and other fear mongering adverts.

Basically, these adverts are blasted at you 5-8 times a day depending on how many YouTube videos/shorts you watch, also I recall seeing same advert even on someone's FB timeline being shared by their friends to switch to chrome.