[perryizgr8]

The only hope is that other Chromium derivatives like Edge and Brave continue supporting v2. Considering Microsoft's history, I doubt they are going to be the resistance against ads. Brave has a bright future ahead, I feel.

[supernes]

I appreciate what Brave are doing, but this will affect them whether they support MV2 or not. Extensions on most Chromium forks are installed through Google's Chrome Web Store, so when Google drops support browsers who do not agree will need an alternative distribution platform (like Opera's fork).

More generally, Brave's attitude towards Chromium changes has been "disable first, ask questions later", even when it hurts forward-looking developers and useful feature adoption [1]. In the case of the file system API, there's also a possible conflict of interest, given how they're pushing IPFS and the rest of the crypto web bullshit. My biggest gripe with them is that most of their development efforts go into developing the cryptocurrency features and they end up neglecting general browser usability and innovation.

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11407