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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
(arstechnica.com)
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I don't have official information, but I doubt it. They tend to stick as closely to the Chromium experience as possible, with the exception of the ungoogled part, of course. Maintaining Manifest V2 support would also just be a massive amount of work, for which they likely don't have the manpower.