Some browser makers aren't too pleased with Google's ideas, and have decided to openly reject them. Manifest V3 is a suggested update to Chromium-based browsers that would all but stop ad-blocking tools that rely on the 'WebRequest' API from functioning properly. Perhaps in an attempt to combat this practice, the tech giant announced 'Manifest V3' earlier this year. On top of that, many users take advantage of script and tracker-blocking extensions like Ghostery.Īs you can imagine, this trend is not exactly great news for companies that rely heavily on advertising dollars to survive – Google, for example. Indeed, nowadays, a large portion of the internet-browsing public uses some form of ad-blocker.Īd-blocking has become so prominent that many, if not most, major browser developers have implemented built-in tools that do the job. Though the importance of advertisements cannot be overstated for many modern websites, it's clear that ordinary users have grown to dislike them quite a bit.

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