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Will this allow content providers to lock content so that ad blockers can't change the content ?

No, this is about increasing performance by taking elements out of the slow DOM update cycle

>> No, this is about increasing performance by taking elements out of the slow DOM update cycle

The question was not about the intent of the feature, but a possible use case that may not have been intended. A more specific reason for the "No" could be more informative.

Interesting idea - though I think any kind of script API can be circumvented by ad blockers pretty easily: They can always inject their own script before anything from the page is executed and manipulate the API functions or replace them with "do nothing" implementations.

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