Killing? No. Handicapping? Yes. And why are we surprised? It’s in their best interest to do so; expecting a for-profit company to go against its own monetary best interests forever is naïve, at best.
Declarative rules engines are better and preserve privacy better. This is Google following Apple's lead and doing the right thing.
> Yes, but network requests won't be observable without permission on the relevant hosts. And host permissions are changing significantly in Mv3 (e.g. they can't be granted as blanket install time permissions).
https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1138889508512866304
there's also some stuff in the design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPu6Wy4LWR66EFLeYInl3Nzz...
Which explains the specific hosts part, but only makes vague mention of how extensions that users do want to run on every site will get permission to do so.
whose ads are getting blocked as a priority? doubleclick is going to be in there so is there really a difference to them either way.