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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2026-02-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Thomas Claburn

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*A peer-reviewed study from Goethe University finds Chrome's Manifest v3 performs on par with (and in some measures slightly better than) Manifest v2 for ad-blocking and anti-tracking, though the research did not assess performance impacts or the effect of MV3's rule limits on infrequently visited sites; broader developer concerns remain about Chrome Web Store oversight and extension security.*

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