If some mechanism or capability is no longer possible or is made infeasible for adblockers to control, then ads will simply switch to using that mechanism. It's a pretty obvious outcome. You cannot simply give just an inch with adtech.
- Now any block filter list will have be updated with a plugin update. So no fetching lists from links directly.
- strict blocking ability [1]
- No dynamic filtering [2]
- No Custom lists (own or third party by the user)
- Element Picker [3]
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Strict-blocking [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode [3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker
https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/151#issuecomment...
Google is an advertising company. Chrome extensions already experienced a lost decade, where nothing much happened until the Manifest V3 "proposal". It's not a good idea to let Google hold the keys to anti-tracking tech.
[1] I stand corrected, DNS lookups are not part of webRequest in MV2 Chrome either. This doesn't change my larger point.
But Chrome never had CNAME filtering before either