[vbezhenar]

The question is: how many people will miss manifest v2 options.

I'm using adblocker written by myself. It's pretty primitive, it uses declarative blocking by URLs and optionally inserts some CSS and JS to selected websites. So far I was able to solve all my ads issues with this approach.

[shadowgovt]

I'm a little surprised Google hasn't seen more pushback from enterprise. I'd expect the weirdest uses of broad permissions to be on intranets, where the inherent risks of such breadth can be mitigated by controlling the accessed data itself. I'm comparing the situation to one of the things that kept Flash on life support for so long: it had been used to build key internal and external tools for fortune-500 companies that they needed time to replace.

That Google hasn't seen such pushback suggests to me that corps writing their own extensions for internal use never caught on like Flash did.

[antonok]

Google actually is allowing MV2 extensions to work under enterprise policy for much longer than anyone else: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/

[staticassertion]

That's an interesting point, but I think it may also speak to the fact that v3 isn't that restrictive other than for very specific use cases.