Today Google Chrome disabled my adblocker, and the internet with ads experience shocked me.
I can still re-enable it, but it seems like June 2025 is the actual deadline for support removal. Ostensibly because uBlock Origin doesn't comply with Googles "best practices", but in reality because it threatens their business model.
Now I'm faced with the personal question of which browser to migrate to. The whole ecosystem seems very unhealthy to me, with Firefox getting 80% of their revenue because of Google, Brave being based on Chromium, and there virtually not being any other independent browser because writing a browser is an insanely complex undertaking.
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Today Google Chrome disabled my adblocker, and the internet with ads experience shocked me.
I can still re-enable it, but it seems like June 2025 is the actual deadline for support removal. Ostensibly because uBlock Origin doesn't comply with Googles "best practices", but in reality because it threatens their business model.
Now I'm faced with the personal question of which browser to migrate to. The whole ecosystem seems very unhealthy to me, with Firefox getting 80% of their revenue because of Google, Brave being based on Chromium, and there virtually not being any other independent browser because writing a browser is an insanely complex undertaking.
Thoughts from the HN crowd?