Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

With the Manifest V3 proposal, Google deprecates the webRequest API’s ability to block a particular request before it’s loaded.

Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the capability to block unwanted content, but this will be restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome. This is likely to allow enterprise customers to develop in-house Chrome extensions, not for ad blocking usage.

For the rest of us, Google hasn’t budged on their changes to content blockers, meaning that ad blockers will need to switch to a less effective, rules-based system, called “declarativeNetRequest.”