@dang can you change it to match the site? I think this submission violates the site guidelines on titles. The original title is "Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary" and doesn't include the ad blocker flame bait.
"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize"
But this:
>The most controversial aspect of the extension manifest v3 is the upcoming changes to the webRequest API. In v3, Google has changed the API so that extensions can only monitor browser connections, but not modify any of the content before it's displayed.
>Instead Google wants developers to use the declarativeNetRequest API, which has the browser, not the extension, strip content or resources from a visited web sites. This API, though, has a limit of 30,000 rules that can be created.
>Unfortunately, this change will break popular ad blockers such as uBlock Origin, which rely on the original functionality of the webRequest API and need more rules than are available in the declarativeNetRequest API.
Is very worrying. So thanks to the submitter.
The limit's been raised. The removed API is used by half of all detected malicious extensions to spy on users. Ad blockers will continue to work fine with the new API, just like they do on Safari now.
I thought the worrying thing isn't whether it's a 30k or 300k limit but that Google itself chooses the amount of filters users can apply.
It feels to me that this is just asking for the abuse of power.
I don't think the specific number itself is anyones primary concern.
The API wasn't completely removed. You can add still use it to monitor requests, you can't block them anymore.