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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Might have to do with the fact that Firefox was the dominant browser for quite awhile until Chrome arrived on the scene.
Iirc it peaked at around 30% market share. I think IE was around 60% at the time. So never dominant, but definitely very very widespread.