Chrome's Manifest V3 Push Signals Changing of the Guard

Nice to see more than just ad-blocking covered.

The switching from capable, interesting Background Pages to ServiceWorkers is an issue so big you could drive a supertanker through it, it's so huge. There's a world of APIs that pages have, but ServiceWorkers don't, and the list of use cases not being served is epic[1] without even trying, still just barely a surface read. It's a vast reduction, a huge constraint, and it just doesn't seem like there's recognition of how nonsense this downgrade is.

There's some movement on supporting userscripts, but it's really hard to understand what the proposals really are, to me at least. One commented in the new set of proposals pointed out that the Google proposal wouldn't allow interacting with DOM elements[2], which just seems like a: hello, where are you? What are you doing? Earth to Google, what planet are you on?

[1] Use cases not served by service workers https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/279#issuecomment...