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Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it (www.neowin.net)
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[–] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Because their an ad company and they don't like any threats to their revenue stream. Same logic as video game companies using DRM. Selling a worse product at a bigger expense to tell shareholders their compelling pirates to pay (even tho most pirates will just not play the game rather than suddenly start purchasing it).