Bowing to pressure from developers and privacy advocates, the search giant now promises to “improve content filtering support” in its Declarative Net Request API.
Google has previously been criticized for considering restrictions on this API due to security concerns; This can significantly reduce the effectiveness of ad blockers in Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. Despite some positive reviews, such as AdGuard CTO Andrey Meshkov, who noted that the changes can provide nearly the same filtering quality as Manifest V2, critics such as EFF’s Alexey Myagkov argue that Manifest V3 still imposes unnecessary restrictions on developers.
Although Google has extended an olive branch to ad blockers, its relationship with such extensions appears shaky. Last month, YouTube rolled out a global crackdown on ad blockers, preventing some users from watching videos with extensions enabled.
Source: Ferra
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