[troupo]

> billions of other people in the world will just work on a fork and that will become consensus.

Yes, yes, billions of people will work on the fork.

> To literally take Chromium as an example. Look at Google's manifest v3 changes.

That literally changed nothing in Chrome dominance.

> Brave and all the other chromium based browsers just put their own ad blocking shim on top and they're fine.

You mean: they literally just slap a skin on top of a Google-developed project, do no actual browser development of their own (do they even participate in web standards?), have vanishingly few users and are likely hemorrhaging money?