I don't see how it would cripple ad blocking. Users don't care; they just want the malvertising/spam/junk gone. Who it harms is sites relying on the search to work, which was a bad idea to begin with...
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I don't see how it would cripple ad blocking. Users don't care; they just want the malvertising/spam/junk gone. Who it harms is sites relying on the search to work, which was a bad idea to begin with...