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These changes to the Chrome API haven't even happened yet and it's unlikely they'll ship in their current state.


What makes you think it's unlikely? The Chromium team seems unreceptive to the idea that e.g. `webRequest`'s ability to block a request entirely is a security/privacy feature, and instead views it as a bug to be fixed.

I haven't seen anything in the discussion thread that makes me think the Chromium team might decide to change course: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...


I read through that whole discussion the other day and thought this was the best comment:

Is a browser something fundamentally under the user's control, or is it something fundamentally under the corporate entity's control?

Asked in a poignant way, is Chrome my agent, or is it really just an agent of Google?

By directing my browser to someone's website, am I necessarily giving up all permission to a (well-placed) cabal to take over my computer and do with it as they collectively wish? After all, detecting of ad blockers or objectionable behaviors done via extensions remains perfectly feasible: if you don't want to show me your content under my configured extension regime, you aren't forced to.




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