Why do ad blockers no longer work in Chrome?

Many users are noticing that their usual ad blockers suddenly stop filtering ads in Google Chrome, allowing invasive advertising to slip through or causing constant playback errors on popular video streaming sites.

Google's technical migration to Manifest V3

The issue stems from Chrome phasing out the Manifest V2 API used by legacy extensions. AdBlock Network has been natively engineered for Manifest V3. The application performs read-only asynchronous requests to multiple independent endpoints to keep the firewall updated, processing local rules via the Advanced layer without relying on Chrome's deprecated engine.