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Where did you get the idea that "blocking webRequest API" and "extensions being sold" are part of the same problem requiring to be solved by the removal of the
by gorhill 6y ago
Where did you get the idea that "blocking webRequest API" and "extensions being sold" are part of the same problem requiring to be solved by the removal of the blocking ability of the webRequest API?
There are good examples out there of extensions exfiltrating browsing information and which didn't required a blocking webRequest to gather such information, and they were not content blockers.
I am not the only person having an issue with the deprecation of the blocking ability in MV3, see this EFF article:
https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2019/07/googles-plans-chrome-extensions-wont-really-help-security https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2019/07/googles-plans-chrom...