Beyond the ad block killing implications, this would also allow google to collect more data about chrome user web traffic, while even more significantly it allows them to obsfucate this data from their competition.
Have fun analyzing user data when google gets the real feed of it and you get whatever they choose to let you see. There’s nothing preventing them from messing with more than just the outgoing IP.
Google gets to pretend they care about user privacy when they’re really just trying to hinder the competition.
anteaters@feddit.de 1 year ago
Non-browser ad blockers like the Pi-Hole block requests to known servers that serve ads. Routing all web traffic through Google’s VPN disables this way of adblocking and only leaves in-browser solutions like u-block. And Google’s fight against those within Chrome is ongoing.