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		spankalee on Oct 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Begin disabling installed extensions still using ... What makes you say the security reasons are made up?

Zak on Oct 12, 2024 [–]

I can take this question.

They removed webRequestBlocking, used mainly by adblockers, but left webRequest. The security implications are the same for both, but only the former is optimized for content blocking.

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