Age verification laws will require social media platforms to collect more of your personal information, from your birth certificate to your school records to biometrics. The process may expose you to more privacy threats, such as potential data abuse, data leaks, and identity theft.
CTO and Co-Founder at AdGuard
Andrey Meshkov is a co-founder and CTO of AdGuard ad blocker. He's been working in IT for over 15 years and has accumulated tons of experience not just in his primary work area, but also in related ones, such as online privacy concerns. Sometimes the urge to share his thoughts becomes too unbearable and he takes a break from coding to write an article or two.
The problem with Manifest V3 is that it limits the number of built-in and user-added rules for extensions installed by an individual user. Since at the core of any ad blocker extension is the filtering rules that teach it to detect ads, such restrictions can become a real snag.