And all it will take to remove support for blocking webRequest will be another Google $400mil/year contract (1), the ONLY source of income for Mozilla Foundation cushy jobs. Current one expires in 2023, guess we have 2 years of uBlock left.
1/ of course they will sell it as API unification, for the better good of worlds web interoperability. Of maybe for safety as this is Googles current argument for killing all sources of User defined (aka not blessed by Google and extension store) code from running in Chrome. Google is faming the issue as "disabling Remote Scripts", of course they are remote to Google, but local to Users as they are on users HDD.
1/ of course they will sell it as API unification, for the better good of worlds web interoperability. Of maybe for safety as this is Googles current argument for killing all sources of User defined (aka not blessed by Google and extension store) code from running in Chrome. Google is faming the issue as "disabling Remote Scripts", of course they are remote to Google, but local to Users as they are on users HDD.