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>It's not for privacy, the people who were saying that are either mistaken or intentionally lying.

They're not lying. This was listed as one of the reasons by Google.

>The declarativeNetRequest API provides better privacy to users because extensions can't actually read the network requests made on the user's behalf.

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReques...




What I mean is the fact that they are deprecating the blocking API. That wasn't an action taken for privacy's sake. Otherwise, why wouldn't they deprecate the observational API too?


I don't know. It's a very fair question.




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