You should switch to a browser that maintains support for good ad-blockers.
This behavior just pisses me off. “Don’t do evil”, my ass.
Clearly it won’t be MSFT or AAPL, and given other DOJ investigations, unlikely to be AMZN. So I at least feel we have a fighting chance in someone else’s hands.
Fingers crossed of course. But it’s a chance.
I do see MS buying it but keeping it as an independent foundation and letting other join to vote and help steer development... I could see Google itself doing this to chromium to avoid loose chrome..
Apple is more unlikely since they do not use Chromiun or Blink for Safari, but give that Blink is a fork of WebKit that is what Apple use in Safari i would not say chances are zero..
My guesses would be Oracle, IBM, or Private Equity.
It’s pretty easy to see how this could be abused by malicious extensions, and security is the stated reason behind many of the Manifest v3 changes.
So it’s not clear that this is Google “being evil”, so much as it is trying to force web security forward, at the expense of user experience.