> the Chrome team has tried to reduce the potential for abuse in the new “Manifest V3” system, but pundits and others have popularized elaborate conspiracy theo

> the Chrome team has tried to reduce the potential for abuse in the new “Manifest V3” system, but pundits and others have popularized elaborate conspiracy theories that this was just a way for Google to crack down on adblockers for their own business interests. > (This is an especially silly claim, since [Google ads are trivially blockable in the new system](https://textslashplain.com/2024/10/13/content-blocking-in-manifest-v3/ https://textslashplain.com/2024/10/13/content-blocking-in-ma...).)