On: Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes

[Isinlor]

ABP is compatible with the new API and will not be affected.

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

This is API that ABP can use. But with the new API the rules list will be limited to 30 000 rules vs. for example 42 000 EasyList is using, and an update to the rules will require a full update of the plugin.

See also comments from gorhill: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...

[user17843 → Isinlor]

ABP released a statement to german news site golem.de, saying that they "prepare for the worst case".

This means they anticipate Google to target the Acceptable Ads program.

Originally I thought 30,000 rules wouldn't be enough to cover things, but according to this research, only a couple hundred rules are enough to block >90% of the ads: https://brave.com/the-mounting-cost-of-stale-ad-blocking-rul...

So maybe there's another limiting aspect of the declarativeNetRequest API I don't know of.

[throwaway2048 → user17843]

90% of the ads right now, but its trivial to design adtech so its only possible to block a tiny percentage of everything with only 50k rules.

(register 50k domains, use 50k different subpath/subdomains and mix content+ads on something like youtube where you cant wholesale block youtube, etc)

[tyingq → Isinlor]

You do link the comments, so just to point out "will not be affected" isn't true for many reasons...not just the reduced ruleset. Details are in those comments. It will be a lesser product all around.

[hungryfoolish → Isinlor]

>ABP is compatible with the new API and will not be affected.

Thats just false. Every adblocker using webrequest will be affected, including ABP.