>more importantly to certain companies involved, the ability to block tracking cookies and request metadata will be almost entirely removed. Right, that's prec

>more importantly to certain companies involved, the ability to block tracking cookies and request metadata will be almost entirely removed. Right, that's precisely what I mean. Trackers are a privacy issue, not an "ad" issue. >I don't know if users of ad blockers make this distinction. Contrary to what people on HN think, the absolute majority of users care little about tracking and a lot about whether there's a huge banner ad in the middle of their content. MV3 does comparatively little to affect the latter (which can be removed through cosmetic blocking). Most users use adblockers purely to get rid of ads. >gorhill's comments here indicate many issues remain with MV3 and that it still fails to meet his own requirements. Right, that's my point. Tech news sites just running specifically gorhill's comments through an "underpaid intern" filter and then printing them, without actually explaining or probably even understanding them. Gorhill is complaining loudly because it makes his specific software worse, and everyone interprets this as "Google getting rid of adblockers".