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what do those test measure? only what is visible, that is percentage of ads hidden? or does it take into account all the tracking shit regular ublock origin can thwart? I don't buy that it's "somewhat" less effective, and neither that it is more secure.
that's not a problem with browsers like firefox, where the webrequest api was kept for Mv3.
there are plenty of other addons that make use of the webrequest API, they are just not so well known that half of the average desktop users know it. those are affected too.
that's false. ublock simply cannot do lots of things with Mv3 that it can with Mv2. lite is lite for a reason, and not because in short time thats all he could put together.
then your quote just brings up google propaganda. restrictions of useful features are dressed up as "security", just like google does it again but now with android with a different approach.
As said, the differences in adblocking is irrelevant, way more important the improved tracking blocker of Mv3. You won't see any ads using uBO Lite, Adblock Plus or AdGuard Mv3. Apart with an inbuild ad/trackingblocker it's irrelevant, there don't exist the limit of filterlists like in the extension..
Anyway it isn't even worth such panic about this, there are always enough tools out there to show the middlefinger if you are worried about it, I'm not.
https://realityripple.com/Tools/AdBlock++/