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> I wish Chrome and Firefox would adopt a content blocking system similar to Safari... This is exactly what Chrome's Manifest v3 offers. As they put it: "There

by varenc 6y ago

> I wish Chrome and Firefox would adopt a content blocking system similar to Safari... This is exactly what Chrome's Manifest v3 offers. As they put it: "There's a new declarativeNetRequest API which lets extensions modify and block network requests in a privacy-preserving and performant way."[0] MV3 went live earlier this year so you can build on it now, but no word on when extensions will be required to migrate. Manifest v3 has been widely criticized [1] for weakening ad blocking which of course aligns with Google's self-interest. It's a tough balance to strike. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-overview/#network-request-modification https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-o... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430

Nullabillity 6y ago
Nope, MV3 weakens ad blocking, but still gives full read access to the requests.
- dotproto 6y ago
  The CWS developer program policy does not allow extensions to request unnecessary permissions. If an extension doesn't have a good reason to observe network requests in MV3, it will/should be rejected. So yes, it's technically possible to observe network requests but in practice few should be doing it.