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I can see your point about the goal to protect privacy, but it's another of those business decisions for the sake of the consumer that sacrifices choice of the

I can see your point about the goal to protect privacy, but it's another of those business decisions for the sake of the consumer that sacrifices choice of the consumer - which affects the likes of the HN crowd in a much higher percentage than the unwashed masses. If there was a way for technical users to unlock the more risky settings, it would placate the conspiracy theorists. That doesn't appear to be the case, so the argument that Google is doing this to restrict and minimise ad blocking remain entirely valid.

chlorion 4y ago
It seems like at least in the case of Ublock, there is the ability for the creator to enable more broad access but they are choosing to not do so. >At this point I consider being permission-less the limiting factor: if broad "read/modify data" permission is to be used, than there is not much point for an MV3 version over MV2, just use the MV2 version if you want to benefit all the features which can't be implemented without broad "read/modify data" permission.