This is effectively part of Google's official argument for making ad blocking more difficult (the unofficial argument being that they actively don't care if ad

This is effectively part of Google's official argument for making ad blocking more difficult (the unofficial argument being that they actively don't care if ad blocking is more difficult, for obvious reasons). The use cases for extensions cover a much larger segment of browser users than programmable keyboards and microcontrollers though: there is a lot more mass appeal for things like languagetool/grammarly, ad-blockers and other page tidiers, tools that are useful for devs¹, and so forth. -------- [1] I'd put money on even the vast majority of front-end devs not touching microcontrollers or having programmable keyboards.