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Correction: The adblockalypse is coming for people still using chromium
It's serverside with browser support. A webserver implements it on their site, so it could refuse to load without WEI regardless of chromium or not.
...therefore, the more people who switch to non-chromium browsers, the better.
You're preaching to the choir.
Been there, done that. Spoiler alert, it ends with even more people switching to chromium, Mozilla crying that it's deeply concerned with and extremely opposing WEI and will work on figuring out a better solution, because WEI is not what Open Web should be, but is being forced to implement it, because people are switching to other browsers because their shit ain't working.
I wager the post on Mozilla's blog is going to read something like this blog-post about EME (the closed-source video DRM) from few years back. I mean, you can just replace EME with WEI and be done with it. Because this has already happened once before, and we know how exactly it will end.
Even if you're right, I'm not going to throw my hands up and do nothing.