This was one of the issues with ad-blockers. They would start of legit and say that they needed all this access in order to efficiently block everything. Then a

This was one of the issues with ad-blockers. They would start of legit and say that they needed all this access in order to efficiently block everything. Then a few years down the line they would sell out to a company that would use this access to mine information about you and sell it to the highest bidder. They would obviously not go as far as to mine your credit card info, because that would get them banned I’m sure. So then Apple made a sandboxed ad-block extension point which would take a list of rules and apply them directly. This wasn’t flexible enough for everyone, so now we are back to square one again.