Strictly speaking about content filtering: declarativeNetRequest is honestly a good thing for like 80% of websites. But there’s that 20% that’ll need privileged extensions. Content blocking should use a layered approach that lets users selectively enable a more privileged layer. Chromium will instead be axing the APIs required for that privileged layer; Firefox’s permission system is too coarse to support a layered approach.
By reading through the article I see that Firefox is going to support adblocking techniques, while Chrome is going to remove them.
Am I missing something?
Yeah, I don’t get why the rest of the comments here are shooting against both. Firefox is 100% doing the right thing here.
The reality is more nuanced than this. Wrote up my thoughts on my blog: A layered approach to content blocking.
Strictly speaking about content filtering:
declarativeNetRequestis honestly a good thing for like 80% of websites. But there’s that 20% that’ll need privileged extensions. Content blocking should use a layered approach that lets users selectively enable a more privileged layer. Chromium will instead be axing the APIs required for that privileged layer; Firefox’s permission system is too coarse to support a layered approach.