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100% this a search engine selling ads on the web is more of an advantage than making a browser. It leads to market advantage due to deeper knowledge of properties than other engines get based on ad placement and passive access to authenticated pages. And it's monetized. The browser isn't.

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The browser is what allowed them to kill effective adblocking with Manifest V3.

Both the ad business and the browser should be split off. Google should really be dozens of businesses.

> The browser is what allowed them to kill effective adblocking with Manifest V3.

There are loads of browsers which block ads without extensions. Use one of those. Or is it that you like the golden eggs but want to kill the goose anyway.

I use Zen Browser.

Nonetheless, the market dominance of Chrome means that the ad blocking industry has been negatively impacted by their monopolist behavior.

I've been using chrome with ublock lite on my linux laptop where Firefox is really slow, and I've not seen any difference. I know the advanced features are missing, but most of the ads are still gone.

> There are loads of browsers which block ads without extensions.

But few (none?) that do it well enough for my comfort.

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