![]() “Content blockers are built on extension features that share too much data with the extension. In a message to followers of the Chrome Developers Twitter account today, Google said that “Chrome isn’t killing ad blockers – we’re making them safer.” Microsoft’s stance on the Edge browser, which is being rebuilt on a Chromium code base, is not known. Some of the browsers have built-in ad blockers. But this month developers of smaller Chromium-based browsers, including Opera, Brave and Vivaldi, said they planned to continue supporting the old webRequest API in their browsers. The move is foremost controversial because of Google’s business model and its incentives to limit online ad blockers. Instead of the webRequest API, Google suggested a more restrictive Declarative Net Request API for Chrome. ![]() Google’s developer advocate for Chrome Extensions, Simeon Vincent, said at the time it would generally prevent the API for ad blocking, but still allow its use for that purpose in enterprise deployments. Google’s latest update to the plan was in May in the face of criticism from users and ad blocker extension developers.
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