
SE Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions
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Manifest V3
The manifest, that's like the core piece of a browser extension. It tells the browser kind of where everything is and what it's supposed to be able to do. The way ad blockers work more or less is that you can give an extension permission to manage every individual network request going on on the browser. And so this transition in manifest V3, it seems very predictable that this was going to happen eventually.
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