Sorry if some sentences will be potentially incomprehensible, because I'm to pissed of rn.
Why does Chrome don't stop with updates? They're trying to force this new shitty UI onto us for more than half a year, there was always a way to solve this and to turn it off, but with every update they get rid of previous solution by purpose and currently no one has found a way to revert to the old one since few days ago. There is no option currently, so I was forced to literally downgrade it, but guess what, every time I turn off the computer and on it the next time, Chrome automatically updates yet again and I have to downgrade it again every single time and don't know how to stop the updates for good, but THERE'S MORE! Adblock doesn't work on the downgraded version for some reason so I have to endure the adds now. People complain constantly about this and demand for option to return to the old UI, but they refuse to stop this and continue forcing this shit.
This is the most atrocious stuff I endured from Google Chrome in years, there were shitty updates for YouTube especially but nothing made it completely unusable and forced upon us like this, this is atrocious. And not to mention constant useless updates unnecessary changing random small irrelevant shit like the look of random buttons etc. Not to mention constant YouTube updates every few weeks for years that lasted until last year while we're at it, I just get barely used to newest update and then new bullshit comes: design of sorting 3 videos in a row instead of 4 or 5 and then seeing only 6 videos with big ass thumbnails covering the whole screen when you open the main page recommended, design of like, dislike, subscribe, date, description buttons etc under videos, again with big ass icons. When that was happening I just got used to past 2020 YT design and they did that.
And no, I can't switch browser because I'm used to Chrome my entire life and spent like few hours max on all the others combined in total. Why can't I simply use 2016-2017ish Google Chrome and YT design(the one I'm most used to) for example and be left alone? Simply choose no updates, piss off, don't bother me and done.
This is terrorism and harassment of users.
Ooh baby, this is just a tiny part in how terrifying they actually are for the open web. Their implementation of manifest V3, platform for browser extensions (that they basically force every other browser to use), along with the deprecation of V2-based extensions (starting this month) is straight up authoritarian. In short, they entirely remove blocking of webRequest and Event pages (user-side background scripts), among other things. This will essentially kill open ad blockers (like uBlock origin) and let them control the supported ones (like AdBlock), meaning we will have ads from advertisers who pay the fee purposely let through.
We have known about this coming change and its implications for 5+ years.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
Meanwhile Firefox, who would also have to implement it for cross-compatibility, will not remove those critical features, as well as will keep support for V2 extensions. This is only one aspect in which Firefox is committed to user privacy, security, and control. I would highly recommend Firefox to everyone, including the Android version.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
Let us also not forget about their attempt at baking invasive DRM right into the browser.. Not mentioning recent experiments with replacing tracking cookies with "cohorts" and all sorts of privacy invasive "features" that claim to enhance your privacy but actually would help advertisers overcome client-side blockers.