Comment by xcrjm
8 months ago
It's a web browser built and controlled by an advertising giant in order to serve you monetized pages more quickly. For examples of why this is bad for the user, search FLoC and manifest V3, both of which they try to say are better for the user despite being objectively worse (the latter hobbles web ad blocker extensions and the former is a solution to "reasonable" web ads and user tracking).
To nitpick: extensions using manifest V3 can in some cases allow better control of permissions granted to the extension.
This way the user can feel more secure about the extension not doing things it didn’t advertise.
In those cases I would say that’s genuinely better for the user. Wouldn’t you?
Not all extensions are AdBlock Plus which (as an exception) have very specific needs not covered by manifest V3.
It’s not all black and white. Google is not all in the wrong here, even though their motivation is obvious.