Google has announced a major innovation for Chrome, which is still the most popular browser. The Google Chome plugins ‘manifest’ file that presents information to the browser,”manifest V3He was getting ready to make the switch.

While Google wanted to improve the security, privacy, and performance of the extensions with the new transition, it would also be a major bummer for users. With manifesto V3 ad-blocking extensions would also be prevented. But today, fortunately, news came from Google.

Google delayed, but did not cancel the change:

Simeon Vincent, one of Google’s extension developer advisors, in his message to the extension developers Delayed migration to Manifest V3 explained. No new date has been set for the transition, which is normally scheduled for January 2023.

So, how will Manifest V3 be for ad-blocking extensions?

Manifest V3 will bury Web Request, the application programming interface (API) that adblocker extensions take advantage of, in the dusty pages of history. This API has been replaced with a new ‘Declarative net request‘ gets the API.

The new API presents a major challenge to ad-blocking extensions, with measures in place to minimize security risks. In addition, the new change is not only the Chrome browser, All Chromium based browsers (Edge, Brave and Opera) will also affect it.