As Google tries to hinder ad-block extensions with their new platform Manifest V3, it seems to me Chrome or any Chromium derivatives are no longer a viable way to browse the web safely. So it got me wondering, how much big of a task would it be to still suport Manifest V2 on newer releases of Chromium? Maybe implement some legacy option for backwards compatibility with older extensions. I think it would be a great alternative to have, but I haven’t seen anyone coming up with something similar.
I’ve never seen any reason to believe Google has any say in the direction of Firefox. Google pays to be the default search engine, not more, not less.
This same argument could be brought up about Safari. All other browsers are based on Chromium anyway, so they are directly developed by Google themselves.