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Meh, looks like it's easily disabled (by design), and relies on cookies. Very non-intrusive compared to Chrome phoning home to Scroogle.

I'll still use FF or Opera compared to the unclean abortions named Chrome or Explorer.

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Under windows a modified hosts file kills almost all ads.

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Meh, looks like it's easily disabled (by design), and relies on cookies. Very non-intrusive compared to Chrome phoning home to Scroogle.

I'll still use FF or Opera compared to the unclean abortions named Chrome or Explorer.

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