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You don't understand, V3 is very important to enhance user privacy. Details about how it will decrease user privacy must fall to the wayside in favor of the important goal of increasing user privacy.

And the secondary effects of it also nerfing adblockers is completely unrelated. It's about user privacy.




There is no change in privacy. Under v2 you could intercept and modify requests within the client. Under v3, you can only do that via a proxy. It’s the same lack of privacy. You always had to trust the extension author to not be malicious.

V3 only makes it obvious both to users and to the site being requested that there is a man in the middle.


Newspeak. Bravo.


Privacy AND safety. Think of the child safety.




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