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 I understand that #3 sounds glib, but it's how Chrome Extensions initially came to be different from Firefox (and BHO/ActiveX-baesd) extensions and how most systems iterate. We're not predicatively more clever than all possible folks preying on users.
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I think it's that experience revealed there were certain threats that needed to be included in the threat model. I'm not on the team, but I think an example is, "extension pretends to be an ad blocker, but actually sells your browsing history."
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