By adblocking extensions I mean browser extensions that block ads from loading/showing up, and also, to certain extents, tracking analytics, which should be a large part of Google’s business model.
And companies like those have the reputation to restrict third-party options that affect their profits.
Are attracting/keeping the Chrome’s userbase more important ?
Are there “rules” preventing such behaviors ?
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Some other factors that haven’t been mentioned:
– Google chrome developers themselves fall into exactly the demographic of technically savvy people who would absolutely use ad-blockers 100% of the time. If I was working on a browser I sure as hell wouldn’t want to make my own browser unusable for me. There’s only so much the higher-ups can do in a company where the engineers command as much power as Google. Imagine how hilarious it would be for both PR and the internal development cycle if developers actually used Firefox when developing Chrome.
– Likewise, making Chrome unusable for any other sort of developer or technically-oriented person would very quickly kill its user share among the people responsible for *creating* the frameworks etc. powering web applications. Even when they first started trying to restrict the power of ad blockers, the word spreading between developers was to avoid Chrome for exactly this reason. It was considered more of a joke than a serious browser. That’s bad for PR.
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