The situation is much more complex than that. they are replacing an API (webRequest) with another one (declarativeNetRequest) and will going forward only support this new API under what's called Manifest V3.
So why bother with this change? The webRequest API is actually very powerful. It can do something like modify network requests before the browser itself has a chance to process them. You can imagine how a malicious extension can exploit this, by modifying the requests before the browser even knows it's happened. But a functional result of this change, due to the details of DNR, is that adblockers will be far less powerful. The situation isn't as extreme as when the original specification for ManifestV3 was announced, but it's still far from what it needs to be to get something as high quality as uBlock Origin to work correctly.
The situation is much more complex than that. they are replacing an API (webRequest) with another one (declarativeNetRequest) and will going forward only support this new API under what's called Manifest V3.
So why bother with this change? The webRequest API is actually very powerful. It can do something like modify network requests before the browser itself has a chance to process them. You can imagine how a malicious extension can exploit this, by modifying the requests before the browser even knows it's happened. But a functional result of this change, due to the details of DNR, is that adblockers will be far less powerful. The situation isn't as extreme as when the original specification for ManifestV3 was announced, but it's still far from what it needs to be to get something as high quality as uBlock Origin to work correctly.
tl;dr use Firefox.
what is DNR
declarativeNetRequest
[slaps forehead] it was right there, lowercase D made my brain short out
No worries