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Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, but don't work on anything related.

This seems like probably a good thing for casual users. Safari adblockers have shown that declarative lists can work well enough. The people who will suffer, I fear, are those of us who run more flexible and powerful tools, like [uMatrix](https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix).

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Not a fan of ad blockers myself. Though this still seems like a step backwards. There's no escape hatch for informed users.

Why are you not a fan of adblockers, if I may ask?

You can enable the enterprise features which will allow this.

> Safari adblockers have shown that declarative lists can work well enough

I've written my own Safari blocker based on https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and found the declarative rules to fit my needs.

I've also had the displeasure of removing malicious extensions from my dad's laptop, so I get why they want to remove an API that allows data exfiltration.

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