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Yup, the MV3 version requires zero permissions and in theory should be faster. These are real benefits that for some reason nobody will admit exist.

Saying anything positive about MV3 or the lite extension seems to get you downvoted without explanation though, which is a nice example of how absurd this site is when it comes to anything related to Google.

Sometimes I think downvoting should require leaving a comment and reason, because I can't see any reason to downvote this other than "google bad".

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I get the security benefits, but the performance benefits seem weak. Won't the benefits of not having to run as much js to do the filtering be cancelled out by having the run additional advertising code that isn't being blocked by the lobotomised adblockers?

Sounds like the real issue is "we are replacing X with Y" and there are use-cases for both X and Y to co-exist.

and just conveniently, X has some features that the owning company doesn't like as it is antithesis to their business model. Therefore, by replacing X with Y, and touting some performance improvements (which is real, but marginal), they get to remove X with plausible deniability.

They should let them co-exist but probably they figured out it is just easier to kill V2 extensions all together. What a shame.

Reason: Removing user control from browsers is strictly bad.

Which GOOG team are you on?

He is on Extensions team. lol

> nobody will admit exist.

This is not true.

People talk about the upside of the declarative API plenty, but adding one function doesn't mean removing another, and the conflation required to use that as a defense of google is what gets downvotes.

Is uBOL as ad-removing and privacy protecting as uBO?

We aren’t talking just an extension here. If it didn’t exist, that would make web browsing insufferable to many. It is a part of web browsing itself. Let me put it as clearly as it can be:

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uBO is a Holy Grail and gorhill is our Jesus Christ.

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If MV3 (and further development) tries to touch it in any inappropriate way, comments promoting it deserve 5x downvote mutiplier without the usual -4 limit.

"in theory" is not a real benefit

you get to downvote?

When you get Karma of 501 or more…

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