Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the
capability to block unwanted content, but this will be
restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome.
I gotta say I'm kind of glad Google is doing this. It will force me to finally abandon Chrome, something I should have done awhile ago.
Check out Ungoogled Chromium, it's pretty great.
Can you elaborate on what this is and why you think it’s so great?
It's a fork of Chromium, the core layer of Chrome, with Google integrations removed (and other privacy-conscious feature removals/additions).