I mention active tab permissions above -- they're a welcome change, but they're separate from the debate around the imperative vs declarative blocking API. The

I mention active tab permissions above -- they're a welcome change, but they're separate from the debate around the imperative vs declarative blocking API. There are no permission changes that I know of that are being applied to the observational API that couldn't be applied to the blocking API. There are changes in V3 that are good for privacy -- but the removal of the blocking API will not increase your privacy.