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by Havoc 1663 days ago
Is this gonna kill Adblock or not? Heard different things at different times about manifest 3
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It removes the ability for extensions to intercept network requests. Instead, it provides a means for extensions to block content by providing a blacklist. This is similar to how content blockers work in Safari.

It won't kill adblockers, but severely limit their functionality in the face of increasingly elaborate advertising techniques

it will work fine initially but then it will slowly get less and less effective as advertisers figuring out how to subvert declarative lists with no logic

boiling the frog, basically

It will kill the only adblock that matters, ubo.
it will neuter but not outright kill it. as much as google thinks they can get away with
I heard it cripples some of it's major features but overall it will still kind of work?

I don't have a source for that - I could be wrong.