Powerful extensions do not need powerful code
What happened
When Chrome introduced Manifest V3, ad blockers took the biggest hit. The idea behind MV3 itself was not necessarily a bad one: extension code that sits in the request path of every page load is bad for security and bad for performance, so it had to go. The replacement however was a capped and much less expressive rule format, and the most popular type of extension suddenly got a lot worse. Since then, the general f…
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Timeline
- First appeared on Hacker NewsHacker News