Google argues otherwise and maintains its platform renovation will meet developers' needs, including those making tools for content blocking and privacy. It's that Manifest v3 caps the certain capabilities of extensions and cuts off innovation potential." "If you asked me if we can have a Manifest v3 version of Privacy Badger, my answer is yes, we can and we will," said Alexei Miagkov, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a phone interview with The Register. Manifest v3 caps the certain capabilities of extensions and cuts off innovation potential in a recent performance study we showed how Ghostery's adblocker can be initialized two to three orders of magnitude faster as compared to other popular adblockers using these techniques (it also uses much less memory for the same number of blocking rules).Browser extensions such as Ghostery Privacy Ad Blocker, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger, along with scripting extensions including TamperMonkey, which are each designed to block adverts and other content and/or protect one's privacy online, are expected to function less effectively, if they can even make the transition from Mv2 to the new approach: Manifest v3. Looking forward to read more feedback from the community on this! But it's important to understand that sometimes less is more and that adding features does not necessarily equates with better protection. Thanks again for your feedback, we will definitely keep the door open for more customization in the future. We are also able to pre-bundle them and ship/update them very efficiently to/in the client instead of downloading huge assets which need to be parsed in the client and would result in higher data and CPU usage. For example, the blocking lists used by default in the adblocker are selected and optimized so that they play well with our AI anti-tracking technology. Last but not least, not allowing arbitrary lists in Ghostery at the moment allows us to make sure features behave optimally and do not conflict with each other.If such an option were to be provided, would it alleviate the need to add custom lists manually? Again, more options does not necessarily means better privacy protection or better adblocking which is why we carefully consider the implications and benefits of adding new features in Ghostery. In the light of the previous point, it would be interesting to experiment with extra options such as "enable anti-annoyance mode".Automatically enabling language specific lists is one way we achieve this. We always try to provide the best settings out of the box so that users are as safe as possible, even without the need for manual customization. For example if you visit German websites regularly, then Easylist Germany will be enabled transparently to customize adblocking. When the adblocker starts, it checks locally the language of the sites you visit most (it goes without saying that no data ever leaves your browser), then can decide to enable extra filters based on this information. Ghostery already enables language-specific filters automatically based on your browsing habits.What needs to be considered though, is how it fits into the Ghostery experience and what value it would add for users (e.g.: more privacy, more comfort, etc.). There is technically nothing that prevents us from enabling more lists in the extension (in fact, syntax from Easylist, uBlock Origin and most of Adguard's is already supported).We've been discussing this topic multiple times internally in the past and there are a few important things to consider: I work on Ghostery's adblocker and would like to give a bit of insight about supporting extra lists.
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