Content blockers and Chrome's Manifest V3
Content blockers and Chrome's Manifest V3
[Security] Posted Dec 21, 2021 1:06 UTC (Tue) by jake
A clarion call from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warning about upcoming changes to the Chrome browser's extension API was not the first such—from the EFF or from others. The time of the switch to Manifest V3, as the new API is known, is growing closer; privacy advocates are concerned that it will preclude a number of techniques that browser extensions use for features like ad and tracker blocking. Part of the concern stems from the fact that Google is both the developer of a popular web browser and the operator of an enormous advertising network so its incentives seem, at least, plausibly misaligned.