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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[โ€“] Phoenix3875 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

From my understanding, MV3 kills vital features of ad-blockers in that

  1. Some filtering rules do rely on the ability to read the content of the webpage, which can't be migrated, per the FAQ linked in the article
  2. The declarative API means an update to the rules requires an update to the plugin itself, which might get delayed by the reviewing process, causing the blocker to lag behind the tracker. It might not be able to recover as quickly as uBO in the recent YouTube catch-up round.
[โ€“] timewarp 0 points 3 months ago

  1. uBOL GitHub does a pretty good job of explaining some challenges, and some of them are better tracked in the issues.

  2. Your second point isn't accurate though and MV3 does support dynamic rules.