In order for Google Chrome to reach its current user base, it had to support content blockers — these are the top most popular extensions for any browser. Google strategy has been to find the optimal point between the two goals of growing the user base of Google Chrome and preventing content blockers from harming its business.
The blocking ability of the webRequest API caused Google to yield control of content blocking to content blockers. Now that Google Chrome is the dominant browser, it is in a better position to shift the optimal point between the two goals which benefits Google's primary business.
The deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further instrument and report how web pages are filtered, since the exact filters which are applied to web pages are useful information which will be collectable by Google Chrome.
Citam upravo tekst o tome kako Google planira da zablokira ad blokere, tj. da im nacini posao bar malo tezim. Neko bi rekao da se ovo videlo iz aviona ali covek bi pomislio da su ovakve perfidne stvari - stvar proslosti ili bar ne za neke ozbiljne kompanije.
Google je izgleda ozbiljan u tome da maksimizira svoj profit, po cenu, ja bih rekao, ne bas cistog obraza. Ovo im se desava isto i sa youtube-om, odjednom ad blockeri sve manje i manje uspevaju da blokiraju reklame (da ne ulazim u onaj apsurd kada ne mozes da preskocis reklamu koja je duza od samog videa). Iz mog ugla, nije fer davati korisnicima jednu mogucnost, i onda kada ti naraste userbase gasiti te mogucnosti jer si de-facto postao standard. Ovo sve vise govori da je veoma opasno oslanjati se na proprietary software tamo gde user base veliki, i gde sam software postaje standard u svojoj oblasti. Rekao bih da je OSS a must u tom slucaju.