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Comment by kelnos | Hacker News Reader

Well, it hasn't happened yet. Judging by many comments here, a lot of HNers still use Chrome. If people here still use Chrome, I see little hope of regular users ditching it for these sorts of reasons.

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It’s convenient for me to use Chromium (in the guise of Brave), because that’s the most important browser for web dev.

However, the day that MV2 is removed in Brave I will switch to Firefox.

Not sure why anyone would use Chrome over Brave though.

That's because Google so far has only been dancing around and preparing to make ad blocking difficult. Until they actually do it, Chrome is fine.

"Yeah there's a lot of smoke, but I'm not going to evacuate until I see flames"

The writing is on the wall, why are you so keen to wait til the last minute?

Because many tech people who are sticks in the mud like this don't actually care about the browser, or the implications of what's happening in real time.

They'll eventually leave and wonder why nobody told them sooner.

Ugh, that's a bad analogy and you know it. No actually what you're doing is a classic case of "it's in the EULA, so they can do it". Like, if tomorrow Google puts a clause in their EULA that they have the right to harvest the eyeballs of everyone who lives on Earth, you'd be scrambling for passage to Mars. "It's in the EULA! Corporations are all-powerful and can do anything, as long as they state it in the EULA!"

I no more fear Google banning ad-blockers than I fear Toyota putting spikes on all of their steering wheels. It would be much more painful to their bottom-line than any Toyota drivers, because people would do this magical thing called... not using that product.

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