@Aether All of those expansions appear to have been proprietary malware from the very start, thus some more malware being added is really the typical result.

Hacking is playful cleverness and the developer account getting "compromised" and spyware being added (that definitely wasn't the malware author adding more spyware themselves), is not something that is playfully clever.

Manifest V3 doesn't stop spying - it's soley intended to prevent the effectiveness of proprietary malware advertising JavaScript refusers like ublock origin.

If google wanted to eliminate spyware, they would disallow proprietary extensions, but alas their browser itself is spyware.