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0 pointsjorvi1y ago0 comments

Yup.

I understand that nerfing adblocking is definitely a big draw for Google, but Apple went the ManifestV3 route many years before, specifically to increase extension performance and privacy.

Back then there was a big uproar too, but mostly because Safari extension developers charged for a new version because they had to rewrite the entire thing.

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zarzavat1y ago

> specifically to increase extension performance and privacy

This reasoning is so bogus that it’s hard to believe anybody could believe it in good faith. Ad blockers are essential for performance and user privacy and security.

If Apple truly bought into this reasoning then they’d integrate an ad blocker like Brave does. Follow the money.

jorviOP1y ago

It is not bogus. It does increase privacy because the extension no longer sees what pages you load or your web content. And it is indeed more performant.

And Apple does care because later on they started to allow blockers to spread blocking rules over multiple sub-extensions. Initially they were limited on... 15 000 rules? Can't quite remember.

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