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AFAIK the new proposal allows dynamic filtering, which addresses the primary concern with adblocking tools like uBlock, I believe. > The Declarative Net Reques
by staticassertion 7y ago
AFAIK the new proposal allows dynamic filtering, which addresses the primary concern with adblocking tools like uBlock, I believe.
> The Declarative Net Request API now allows for the registration and removal of dynamic rules - specified at runtime rather than statically in the manifest. We’ve also added the capability to remove common tracking headers, such as Referer, Cookie, and Set-Cookie.
https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarative-net-request.html https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarativ...
My opinion though is that if you were going to switch over this, just switch anyway.
- ac29 7y agoThere is a limit of 30k rules though, which isn't enough to contain even uBO's defaults. While it looks like they are moving to a 150k global limit, even that is less than my current uBO setup of over 200k.
- viraptor 7y agoThey can work around that by concatenating multiple checks into a single rule though, right?
- staticassertion 7y agoBut the article addresses this by saying that the vast majority of rules never get used?
- danShumway 7y agoNo, as far as I can tell Gorhill's position on the policy hasn't changed since dynamic filtering was introduced. The primary concern isn't that rules can't be modified, it's that they're declarative -- meaning developers can only use filtering schemes that Google explicitly supports. It's inaccurate to say that the revised v3 addresses all API concerns.
- staticassertion 7y agoOh, ok. I really wasn't sure.