> That does not necessarily mean good ad blocking must break. Most people find the ad blockers on Safari to be fine, and Safari does not have that kind of block

> That does not necessarily mean good ad blocking must break. Most people find the ad blockers on Safari to be fine, and Safari does not have that kind of blocking. It has long required the declarative rule kind of blocking. This presupposes that advertising platforms will not react to the changes to adblocking in any way, but I don't think that's realistic. The declarative rules can only be changed with updates to the extension (AFAIK, please correct me if I'm wrong). This means users can't block ads themselves (at least uBlock Origin Lite can't do it), and it will take between days to weeks until new block lists have propagated. Now, remember last year when YouTube started blocking adblockers? They changed their implementations sometimes multiple times per day, and after minutes to hours new blocklists were distributed that got around them. This won't be possible anymore with Manifest V3, so Google just has to update their adblock implementation often enough to finally get rid of them. And the same goes for other platforms. Once the majority of users is using browsers that only allow declarative blocking, more platforms will start updating more frequently.