The most popular ad blockers are Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin, and each will face real problems with the new API. When they do get released, most ad blockers on Chrome will be much less effective. Changes to Chrome can take a long time to get released and Google has not announced when the changes will go live. Can you still get ad blocking to work?įor now, all ad blocking works.

But ad blockers disagree and claim that there’s better ways to accomplish those goals without restricting ad blockers at the same time.

Google insists that this will help with security and privacy. The old API was called the Web Request API. The new API, Declarative Net Request API, does’t allow chrome extensions as much freedom as the old API did. The API is how a browser extension like an ad blocker communicates with the browser.

What’s going on, and what are your options? Which ad blockers still work? Some will still work but the majority will lose their ability to block ads consistently. Chrome is doing away with its ad blocking extensions soon.

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