Chrome Extension Manifest V3 May Break uBlock Origin Content Blocker

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Google is working on the Chrome extension manifest version 3 at the moment which defines the capabilities of Chrome's extensions platform.

The updated manifest is available as a draft currently that anyone may access. Draft means that it is not set in stone yet and that things may change. Google will release the updated version of the manifest eventually though and make it mandatory after a transitional period.

Interested users and extension developers may follow the tracking bug, issue 896897, on the Chromium Bugs website.

Raymond Hill, known as Gorhill online, the author of the popular content blockers uBlock Origin and uMatrix, voiced his concern over some of the planned changes; these changes, if implemented as proposed currently, remove functionality that the extensions use for content blocking.

Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/22/chrome...or-chrome/