[jorams]

Manifest v3 is an effort to make a browser slightly better at its core feature, that it is importantly already fine at, at the cost of making it worse at serving the user. The internet is increasingly user-hostile, and manifest v3 makes it harder to fight back.

[skybrian]

Ironically the stricter permissions are because browser extensions sometimes have crap security and the Internet is a hostile place.

The browser itself might be pretty much okay, but the extensions are where the terrible code is.

[justinclift]

How co-incidental that Google chose a model that somehow reduces one of their significant revenue risks, that of ad blockers.

Clearly there was no other way... /s