Comment by pessimizer

They could flip the switch on that in a second after a phone call from Google (or more likely a personal visit with no potential recording devices around.) We could call it Manifest V4, "the compromise."

We really stuck it to those bastards at Google, and they conceded that we could continue allowing the interfaces that efficiently enable adblocking, and still be conformant with the new Manifest V4. We'd just have to put every new add-on through a simple process to make sure that they weren't abusing that privilege.

I mean, they long ago disabled unsigned add-ons in everything but developer nightly iirc? It can't even be considered an entire step to say that only add-ons signed by Mozilla will run; more like a slight lean.