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> If this (quite limited) declarativeNetRequest API ends up being the only way content blockers can accomplish their duty, this essentially means that two content blockers I have maintained for years, uBlock Origin ("uBO") and uMatrix, can no longer exist.

It is; https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897....

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There's a Firefox version of it, isn't there?

You can rest assured that if I can't have adblocking in chrome, then I'll stop using chrome.

Yeah, this will kill my use of chrome as well. I wonder how Brave (which is based on Chromium) will end up handling this.

Why guess? We know brave’s business model is equally bad. There’s a company which its main objective is user privacy and safety, and that’s Mozilla. Current versions are exceptionally polished and speedy and you know what you’re getting.

They will turn it back on, make their own privacy extension store? I imagine it's some sort of compilation or configuration flag?

It's painful to think how they are about to single handedly destroy the best web browser that's ever existed (IMO). All that hard work over the last decade basically gone to waste.

The writing has been on the wall for a long time now.

Yes there are:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/umatrix/?src=...

Will probably migrate to Edge, Brave or Opera before Firefox... I just prefer the UI.

I'm also quite interested in what the Chromium-powered Edge will do.

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