Chrome API Update Remove ADS Blocker With Other Extension
Google has announced making some changes in their Chrome API that threatens user privacy. As per its planned API update, it will restrict ad blockers. In fact, the upcoming Chrome API update will not only limit ad blockers, but may also kill numerous other plugins and extensions.previous year, Google publicly shared its plan regarding some changes in the Chrome API. This Chrome API update plan revealed changes in Chrome Extensions platform that would kill ad blockers. Precisely, the changes referred to restricting various extensions’ abilities. According to Google, the changes aim at providing better security, privacy, and performance.
“In Manifest V3, we will strive to limit the blocking version of web Request, potentially removing blocking options from most activity. Content blockers should instead use demonstrativeness.The latest demonstrativeness API will be used as the primary content-blocking API in extensions.”
While this seems pretty easy, Raymond Hill, the one behind u Block Origin and u Matrix ad blockers, has raised concerns on this policy. He fears that the API update will eventually kill both uBO and u Matrix ad blockers. In addition, this modification also threatens other extensions.
Beside causing uBO and u Matrix to no longer be able to exist, it is really concerning that the proposed demonstrativeness API will make it impossible to come up with latest and novel filtering engine designs, as the demonstrativeness API is no more than the implementation of one specific filtering engine, and a rather limited one.”
Changes are may be reserved
It isn’t about Raymond Hills only, rather various developers have expressed similar concerns. Andrey Meshkov, the AdGuard developer, also endorsed Hill’s concerns.
“The proposed change will be even more crippling to all ad blockers… there are other serious change that needs attention. The proposed change to hosts permissions basically means that every time users navigate to a new website, nothing is blocked there. OK, may be something is blocked by declarative rules, but blocking web requests is just a tiny part of what ad blockers do.”
“The web Request API is not going to go away in its entirety. It will be affected, but the exact changes are still in discussion. This design is still in a draft state, and will likely change. Our aim is not to break extensions. We are working with extension developers to strive to keep this breakage to a minimum, while still advancing the platform to increase security, privacy, and performance for all users.”

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