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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by SquareWheel on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:03PM (#20141541)
>It doesn't make a logical sense because if they are banning the ad-blockers...

To be clear, you can still block ads under Manifest v3. I don't know where this idea that you suddenly won't be able to block ads came from, but somebody is being dishonest about it.

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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by varenc on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:15PM (#20141612)
Ad blocking capabilities are limited and there's no API to implement advanced rules like media size limiting. For example manifest v3 has no way to implement the full EasyList.
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Re:Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker ... by SquareWheel on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:18PM (#20141629)
That's true on both counts, but less of a concern than you might be thinking. EasyList can be slimmed down significantly without losing any blocking. Media size limiting is a more interesting use case, but probably not why most installed adblockers in the first place.
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