[greymeister]

... and yet another downside to Microsoft moving to Chromium.

[blibble]

presumably they are capable of putting in the engineering work to restore the old feature

then they'd be able to sell their browser as having ad blocking when chrome doesn't

the market would take care of the rest

[metalliqaz]

Why would Microsoft be driving this change? Google is the company with the huge advertising business.

[tivert]

Because by moving to Chromium, Microsoft increased Google's control of the browser ecosystem by killing one of the last remaining competitors to it. Now only Firefox is left.

Before they dropped Edge, a move like this would have been a great marketing opportunity for Microsoft: "Come to Edge, where your ad blocker still works."

[fantyoon]

I assume they meant that with Microsoft moving to Chromium there is less competition and thus less reason to fear that the change will hurt Chrome.