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That is their stated goal. > There’s been a lot of confusion and misconception around both the motivations and implications of this change, including speculati
by 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.
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- wtallis 3y agoImplementing 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.