{"id":308076,"date":"2019-05-30T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=308076"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T08:52:13","slug":"google-to-stop-ad-blocking-by-chrome-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/308076-google-to-stop-ad-blocking-by-chrome-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to stop ad-blocking by Chrome users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/a\/chromium.org\/forum\/m\/#!msg\/chromium-extensions\/veJy9uAwS00\/9iKaX5giAQAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>confirmed<\/strong><\/a> that it will be stopping non-enterprise users from using ad-blocking plug-ins on its Chrome browser.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it has listened to the feedback it has received from users after previously announcing its intentions to deprecate webRequest&#8217;s ability to block requests before they&#8217;re loaded.<\/p>\n<p>In response to largely negative feedback, it said that it will allow enterprise users of Chrome to use ad-blocking extensions, but will continue to proceed with the changes for non-enterprise users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chrome is deprecating the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API in Manifest V3, not the entire webRequest API (though blocking will still be available to enterprise deployments),&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Google told <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2019\/01\/22\/google-chrome-break-ad-blockers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>9to5Google<\/strong><\/a> that this updated design of its Manifest V3 &#8211; the document that outlines the webRequest changes &#8211; is still subject to change pending work Google is doing alongside developers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/307884-new-youtube-features-blocked-for-microsoft-edge-preview-users.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New YouTube features blocked for Microsoft Edge preview users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed that it will be stopping non-enterprise users from using ad blocking plug-ins on its Chrome browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[35280,167,1137],"class_list":["post-308076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-ad-blocker","tag-google","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308108,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308076\/revisions\/308108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}