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I somehow doubt the goal of the people behind Chrome is to make ad-blocking performance better.

• scq 3y ago
  That is their stated goal. > There’s been a lot of confusion and misconception around both the motivations and implications of this change, including speculation that these changes were designed to prevent or weaken ad blockers. This is absolutely not the goal. In fact, this change is meant to give developers a way to create safer and more performant ad blockers. -- https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarative-net-request.html https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarativ...
  • wtallis 3y ago
    Implementing DeclarativeNetRequest is mostly about making (simple) blocking perform better. Instituting unrealistically low limits on the number of rules that can be registered is not; if anything, the new APIs should have been enabling much larger filter lists than are currently in widespread use through the old APIs.
• pvg 3y ago
  It's not a particularly difficult thing to assess technically.
• deprecative 3y ago
  As Google is an ad company, anyone believing that they want to make ad-blocking better is.. not looking at the economics. What makes sense if this is what they're pushing forward with is that Google sold ads would be exempted while other ads would be ground out. My guess is there's a mix of reasons and none of them are for the benefit of the users.