Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers

Things like this is why it is so important for the web to have multiple browsers available to choose from.

There was enough evidence.

But every single one of your comments defends Google and is spreading doubt. Even causing people to flag legitimate articles like this one.

I think it was this

> Following the publication of this study, Google engineers made it official on a Google Groups posting hours later, announcing a relaxation of the Manifest V3 changes that would have impacted ad blockers.

There is no backtracking or lying here. The thread states:

> there are currently no planned changes to the observational capabilities of webRequest (i.e., anything that does not modify the request).

This was the plan in the earlier thread as well. The API wasn't going away, they were just removing blocking and modifying.

The article also goes hard on how they clarified that "they never intended to prevent or break content blocking". Again, they never said they wanted to limit this, they were just "moving fast and breaking things" by requiring the content blocker extensions to move to a new API. The original thread mentioned uBO because it was going to be the main source of discussion due to it having 50k+ rules already.

HN thread about the Adblockers performance study mentioned in the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19175003

The sub-title immediately below the title is: "Google changes stance on upcoming Chrome Manifest V3 changes as benchmark shows they lied about performance hit."