Author: Chris Hoffman / Source: How-To Geek
Ad blocker uBlock Origin “can no longer exist” if a proposed change to Chrome goes through. That’s according to Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix, in a comment on Chromium’s bug tracker.
As spotted by The Register, Google engineers are proposing this change in the Chromium project’s bug tracker.
Chromium is the open-source browser that forms the basis for Google Chrome, Opera, and soon Microsoft Edge.Don’t worry, though: This won’t break ad blockers entirely. Instead, Google engineers are taking permissions away from browser extensions. Right now, ad blockers and other extensions use the “webRequest” API to listen for events during web page loads and block them.
If the proposed change goes through, extensions won’t be able to block events with this API. Extensions can only watch these events, and that should speed up page load times. Chrome won’t have to wait for extensions to weigh in while loading a page.
Ad blockers must use the “declarativeNetRequest” API to tell Chrome what they want to…
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