The change is going to be part of Manifest V3. As of yesterday it is still "very much in development" https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/ch... Also they're planning a transition period after which Manifest V2 extensions will be removed from the store, so you'll definitely notice when that happens.

And also it isn't anti-adblocker tech. It is pro-privacy tech which will require adblockers to reengineer how they work which has caused their authors to throw a whine fest and feed some good click bait quotes to the press.

As a veteran chrome extension developer, I'm more inclined to trust extension authors than I am to trust the chrome extension API development team, because it's a bad API with bad documentation and bad performance.

Google's claims that the new API will be faster were already shown to be a blatant lie.

Your argument is that I shouldn't trust my privacy to Raymond Hill but I should trust it to Google?

Accusing someone of astroturfing is specifically against the site guidelines (for good reason, it’s like being accused of being a witch. There is no defense against it).

Maybe edit out that paragraph?