I guess this solves the debate over whether Chromium browsers can be trusted. For those unaware the "upgrade" from MV2 to MV3 massively reduced the capabilities of browser extensions, degrading some and completely destroying others. This was mainly done to neuter ad blockers because they got in the way of Google's business model which is degrading your user experience and security so they can steal your data.

Brave says they disagree with the change but they don't have the resources to maintain MV2. They are maintaining a select few MV2 extensions which means they're probably fine for a relatively normie friendly privacy setup. It's a deal breaker for me though. If Google can do this to Brave there's all kinds of other bad things they can do. I don't trust any Chromium based browser at this point, and in any case there's one MV2 extension I use that Brave doesn't support. I guess I'll change to Firefox and maybe try some forks. I'm open to suggestions. I was actually watching a video about the Ladybird browser last night. It looks promising but it's not end user ready yet. They're aiming to go live some time this year. That's something to keep an eye on.

I guess this solves the debate over whether Chromium browsers can be trusted. For those unaware the "upgrade" from MV2 to MV3 massively reduced capabilities of browser extensions, degrading some and completely destroying others. This was mainly done to neuter ad blockers because they got in the way of Google's business model which is degrading your user experience and security so they can steal your data.

Brave says they disagree with the change but they don't have the resources to maintain MV2. They are maintaining a select few MV2 extensions which means they're probably fine for a relatively normie friendly privacy setup. It's a deal breaker for me though. If Google can do this to Brave there's all kinds of other bad things they can do. I don't trust any Chromium based browser at this point, and in any case there's one MV2 extension I use that Brave doesn't support. I guess I'll change to Firefox and maybe try some forks. I'm open to suggestions. I was actually watching a video about the Ladybird browser last night. It looks promising but it's not end user ready yet. They're aiming to go live some time this year. That's something to keep an eye on.