This gives them plausible deniability both internally and externally, to cover the real reason for this change.Manifest v3 needs time to bake in the developer community before it goes live worldwide, which I would estimate will be early 2020, but if they continue with manifest v3 as it is now, it’s likely a significant number of users who rely on ad blocking will migrate to another browser, such as Firefox or Brave. ![]() They claim this change is necessary for security reasons because some Chrome web extensions abuse the webRequest API to create malware. ![]() They cripple ad blockers by deprecating the chrome.webRequest API and replacing that with their manifest v3 API. Specifically, Google is changing Chrome in such a way as to cripple ad blockers, allowing more Google ads through. Google is leveraging the control it has over Chrome, the market-leading web browser it owns, which accounts for 70% of the 2019 global desktop web browser market, to protect its core business: ad revenue. Expect to see tech-savvy users leading the migration to more private browsers.
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