I don't understand how this will make ad blockers unusable. This new API might tell the site the user is using an ad blocker, but that tech seems to exist already..?
Right now websites can only make an educated guess because the ads don't load, they don't know whether you're running a blocker or if you're human.
Combine a more reliable mechanism with the guise of making the web safer and it might be more widely adopted; sites might refuse to load entirely until the check passes. This might mandate having any extensions disabled that can interfere with the content loaded by the site, this goes beyond ad blockers - could also be accessibility or other UI related enhancements.
They can try. Maybe it gets more people to learn about pinhole or other adblocking, with a little bit of luck it even rescues one or two people from the claws of windows.
Google engineers are making my chances of using a Chromium-based browser (near) impossible
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