Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. ​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... ​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

So that's that: Firefox is now the only useful browser in the world.

Meanwhile, Google controls nearly the entire web browser market, far more than Microsoft ever did at the height of the original browser wars.

Using Chromium based products makes you less safe.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/google-pulls-the-plug-on-ublock-origin

edit: to flesh this out a bit more, here is gorhill's FAQ for UBOL https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

#chrome #chromium #manifestv3 #firefox

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.

^{Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)}