Okay, but it's not like Brave couldn't have seen that coming. It doesn't take a genius to see that a browser run by one of the world's largest advertisers is going to prioritize advertisers over users.

I’m just speaking from personal experience as someone who defended Chromium for quite a long time and finally hitting my peak. I’m sure I’m not alone.

I'm curious - how are the two related? What's the significance of the fact that Brave launched, _and then_ Google changing the extension API in a way that affects ad blockers?

The argument against using Chromium has increased significantly with that move.

Before you could argue that the open source Chromium was largely immune to Google's various small bad behaviours, but when they make such a large close-minded move, at a certain point you can't keep supporting the platform as a whole when they are so hostile to the open internet. Even if it's indirect support.

Also, it can't be ignore that Firefox's recent move towards parity with Chrome has played a big role in giving people the option to even switch.