Well here's your timeline: 1. Chrome had to support adblockers to outcompete firefox. 2. Adblockers were really powerful pieces of arbitrary logic making bloc

Well here's your timeline: 1. Chrome had to support adblockers to outcompete firefox. 2. Adblockers were really powerful pieces of arbitrary logic making blocking them infeasible, so manifest v3 had to first be introduced to weaken them. 3. With lean times upon us, everyone is understanding of their move to block ads. All of these steps were necessary, and had to happen with some time inbetween. Sort of an embrace-extend-extinguish play. Edit: Well it seems manifest v2 is being phased out very very gradually and it's not done yet. No new extensions are allowed but uBlock might still be around for a few more months.