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lofaszvanitt ◴[] No.41814733[source]
V3 has some utterly/unnecessarily complicated shite going on, like offscreen documents, and I think it will get worse as time progresses. Google really needs some bludgeoning.
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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[] No.41814751[source]
I have not kept up -what is the steel man argument for V3? Presumably Google has a rationale other than “ad blockers are bad for business”
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1. contravariant ◴[] No.41815533[source]
Ad blocker-wise I think the best argument is that internalising the traffic blocking can be made a lot more efficient than putting a javascript interpreter in between.

The counter argument is that ad-blocking is an arms-race and the only reason a subset of traffic blocking methods is going to work at all is because there isn't a big enough incentive yet.

Other than that the arguments in favour of V3 are going to be about the same as for any API update. My guess is a few extra APIs and more granular permissions.