Extension manifest V3.

Care to explain why you think it's a bad thing? Seems like it's mostly deprecating old JS ways of doing things and introducing new JS features and a better security policy.

It's an underhanded way to limit blocking capabilities that they can sell as a benefit.

Most of Chrome’s shenanigans happen on the backend, like with Google in general.

Google is an advertising company. That's what they make their money from. And they are the biggest internet advertising company.

Everything they do is aimed at gathering more data for more lucrative ads.

I'd rather be connected to contextual ads than have my OS vendor try to keep my entire digital life hostage for a ransom.