Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers

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Google changes stance on upcoming Chrome Manifest V3 changes as benchmark shows they lied about performance hit.

A study analyzing the performance of Chrome ad blocker extensions published on Friday has proven wrong claims made by Google developers last month, when a controversy broke out surrounding their decision to modify the Chrome browser in such a way that would have eventually killed off ad blockers and many other extensions.

The study, carried out by the team behind the Ghostery ad blocker, found that ad blockers had sub-millisecond impact on Chrome's network requests that could hardly be called a performance hit.

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