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		animuchan 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? Yep, and that's how he arrived at the $number. If a small number of people were using ad blockers, the cited sum would approach $0 since disabling ad blockers would affect very few page views, right?

kaashif 3 days ago [–]

Is that true? What if Google just pays them $150m to disable ad blockers?

Not sure if that's legal or whatever but killing ad blockers is probably worth it for Google.

immibis 3 days ago | [–]

Google wouldn't spend $150m to block adblockers if nobody was using adblockers.

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