Thanks for the clarification, and sorry about the misunderstanding! My overall point is that policing the Chrome Web Store, which is Google's responsibility, i

Thanks for the clarification, and sorry about the misunderstanding! My overall point is that policing the Chrome Web Store, which is Google's responsibility, is a separate issue and not necessarily relevant to Manifest v3. If there were a malware extension in the Chrome Web Store today with 800K users, then Google ought to remove it today and doesn't need to wait for Manifest v3 for that. In fact, Google seems to indicate that v2 will continue to be supported for at least a year, so extensions using that API will continue to be in the Chrome Web Store for quite some time. The whole issue of transfer of ownership of extensions is a red herring as far as Manifest v3 is concerned.