It won't be as much of an issue for Brave browser users, as they will be able to use Brave Shields instead (which isn't affected by the Manifest V3 limitations, as it isn't an extension).

I get an ad in this Youtube video with MV3-based AdGuard. And, frustratingly, there is nothing we can do about it, other than hope that the Chrome developers will improve it over time.Īnd as the uBlock Origin dev stated: ' Ultimately, the core issue is that filtering engine capabilities are now dictated by Google, an advertising company, while this was open to innovation before MV3.

The problem with declarative rules is rather obvious: their syntax severely limits what our extension can do. Then the user would be left without AdGuard protection. In the worst case, even the basic filter might not be enabled, because it contains more than 30,000 rules. after an update, service worker restart, change of filter set in our or third-party blockers), it will show a message saying that the browser has modified the list of active filters and left only AdGuard basic ad filter enabled. If this occurs with our extension (and this can happen at any time, e.g. The trick is that one extension may get all of the allowed amount of rules, or there may be more than one, and then perhaps some of the extensions will fall short of the limit. The issue was not about whether it was possible, but rather the limitations Manifest V3 has for content blockers.įor example, the AdGuard post mentions the below issue (along with a whole bunch of other limitations compared to V2).įor static rules, Chrome set a minimum guaranteed limit of 30,000 rules per extension and a total limit of 330,000 rules for all extensions installed by a single user (this also takes into account the limit of 1,000 regexp rules per extension).

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