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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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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Lovingly, this seems like obvious blowback, regardless of the intent, that google could see a mile away (because the plugin authors have been writing blog posts for a year). The sensational headlines seem like a failure to communicate and provide alternatives for viable uses.
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this would have caused zero headlines if the narrative was “google forces ad-block plugin to switch to new equivalent but safer extension api”
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Most ad serving companies work around lists by encapsulating each letter with a span element. Taboola links are difficult to block with Easylist.
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