> So you literally don't know if it was news before now, but you're insisting on calling it "old news"

That was just a figure of speech, which I don't wish to quibble over. I don't insist on using that phrase. The point, from the beginning, is that the HN submission title is not good.

It actually doesn't matter when exactly that Google began disabling MV2 extensions in Chrome canary, because what's the justification for focusing on canary in the submission title when the announcement says, "We will now begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"?

[EDIT:] I see that the submission title has now indeed been changed, so this argument has become redundant.