> Half of all detected malicious extensions used the web request API to spy on users. And they can continue doing so because spying is passive and the passive

> Half of all detected malicious extensions used the web request API to spy on users. And they can continue doing so because spying is passive and the passive (just eavesdropping, no modifications) webRequest API still will be there. >The rule limit has already been raised to 150,000. And it could be 10 billion rules. The point isn't so much the actual number, but that you cannot programmatically judge and block request anymore. >Plenty of ad blockers will still work in Chrome. Of course, those ad-blocker crippling changes aren't in the Stable yet, and even in Canary they are only "preview" and the old APIs still work. >This thread is chock full of motivated reasoning and deliberate misinformation. Yes, that's more or less what you did here.