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Google's update to the browser-extension engine - Manifest - is falsely advertised to the consumers of Chromium as being more secure, private, and performant while in reality it restricts privacy and performance focused browser-extensions' access to the necessary features they need to operate properly. This actually makes the platform less of all of those things - Google benefits by causing ad-blocking browser-extensions to malfunction, earning them more revenue.
Google's update to it's browser-extension software - Manifest - was falsely advertised as being more secure, private, and performant while restricting features of privacy and performance focused browser-extensions - driving them more revenue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barnett |first=Daly |date=2021-12-09 |title=Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening |website=eff.org}}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==