


So what you have now is the same required permission to "read or modify host data" as with MV2, but with a network filtering engine capabilities gated by Google (an advertising company). This MV3-based AdGuard extension still requires a broad permission to "read or modify host data" on all sites: > our new declarativeNetRequest API is designed to be a privacy-preserving method for extensions to block network requests without needing access to sensitive data One of the stated goal of MV3 by Google was to avoid extensions with broad permissions:
