With manifest v2, the extension could dynamically intercept requests and block them based on a custom rule.
With v3, extensions have to predefine the rules for blocking. Which is the limiting factor
With v3, extensions have to predefine the rules for blocking. Which is the limiting factor
And there's a limit of 5000 such rules.
"Based on input from the extension community, we also increased the number of rulesets for declarativeNetRequest, allowing extensions to bundle up to 330,000 static rules and dynamically add a further 30,000." https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi....