It has been announced that Google’s transition to Manifest V3, which will block ad-blocking extensions, has been delayed. The transition process was scheduled to take place in January.
Google has announced an important innovation for Chrome, which continues to be the most popular browser today. The ‘manifest’ file of Google Chome plugins that presents information to the browser, “Manifest V3He was getting ready to make the switch.
Although Google aimed to improve the security, privacy and performance of the extensions with the new transition, it would also have a big minus for users. With Manifest V3 ad-blocking extensions would also be prevented. But today, some happy news came from Google.
Google delayed the change, but didn’t cancel it:
Simeon Vincent, one of the developer advisors of Google extensions, in his message to the extension developers Delayed migration to Manifest V3 explained. No new date has been set for the transition, which is normally planned to take place in January 2023.
So, how will Manifest V3 get ahead of ad-blocking extensions?
Manifest V3 will bury Web Request, the application programming interface (API) that ad-blocker extensions take advantage of, into the dusty pages of history. This API is replaced by a new ‘Declarative Net Request‘ will get the API.
The new API will present a major challenge to ad-blocking extensions, with measures in place to minimize security risks. Moreover, the new change, not only the Chrome browser, All Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave and Opera) will also affect it.
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Source :
https://groups.google.com/u/0/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E?pli=1