PSA re: the wild misreporting about Extensions Manifest v3: declarativeNetRequest *is a list-based blocker*, and that's what's being added. This is the same approach Apple/Safari uses for the same reasons (perf & privacy): https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetRequest …
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And yes, there is an explicit goal here to remove and reduce use of a much, much slower and more privacy invasive system (blocking `webRequest`). This is a move away from a system that is unsafe in most cases to one that is more like what Apple has shipped.
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There *are* open debates about various limits in the new declarative world. But saying "debates rage about the size of a number as tests to verify continue" isn't a great headline...soooo...
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For sense of scale for those just joining, Apple limits the total number of rules in the Safari implementation to 50K (if I understand it correctly; doesn't seem documented). Chrome's proposal is 30K *per extension* with evaluation ongoing to raise it: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetRequest#property-MAX_NUMBER_OF_RULES …
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