Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users

Google Chrome users will continue to have access to the full content blocking power of the webRequest API in their browser extensions, but only if they’re paying enterprise customers. The v3 draft, announced last October and still in flux, alarmed developers of Chrome extensions earlier this year when people began to understand that Google’s plan to deprecate the webRequest API and other proposed changes would break content and ad blockers, privacy extensions, and other browser add-ons that rely on intercepting content before it gets displayed in the browser. In response to concerns raised last month by the developers of the EFF’s Privacy Badger extension, Simeon Vincent, developer advocate for Chrome extensions at Google, last week published an update on the company’s Manifest v3 plan.

Source: www.theregister.co.uk