Why Chrome recommends to remove featured extensions?

[Chris Zalcman]

Today after starting Chrome received the following message:  
This extension is no longer supported. Chrome recommends to remove it.

Latest Chrome stable version. The extension uses manifest v3. More than million users.
Screenshot attached.

Such mockeries of developers and extensions happens periodically. How to understand this? Who does this and why Chrome recommends to remove most used and good rated extensions without real reason?

[Chris Zalcman]

We assume that Google is recruiting students at this time and one of the "Google Platinum Experts" will take advantage of this, destroying competitors and promoting his own extensions. We are not even talking about the counters, which have long been rigged to our disadvantage. Releasing new versions of extensions in the summer is extremely dangerous, since his man has been working/"helping" Google for a long time and has repeatedly threatened remove our extensions with just one click, as he wrote us.

When will Google finally weed out the workers/"helpers" who have been harming the entire company for many years? The company's lost profit from this, according to our estimates, is already several millions dollars. Finally find out the reason, who exactly did this and finally throw it out.

[PhistucK]

Just out of interest, does the machine where this specific screenshot was taken have the latest version of the extension (or at least had at the time when the screenshot was taken)?

Despite releasing manifest version 3, if something happened that made updates fail for some reason and the installed extension is still using manifest version 2, that prompt would make sense. Just a thought...

☆PhistucK

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[Oliver Dunk]

The only time this message is used is when we disable an MV2 extension.

You can see updates on the progress of that deprecation here: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

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[Chris Zalcman]

This happens with all installed extensions, but with Chrome profiles that had not been launched for about a month, two. The extensions were definitely updated to manifest v3 a long time ago, so it looks like it's a chrome update bug.