Interesting choice. Play Integrity is typically used to verify app/device authenticity on Android, so this likely ties more to protecting AI features from abuse than anything browser-related...
The real issue isn’t lack of alternatives, it’s that most “Google alternatives” still depend on the same underlying web index sources or trade quality for independence...
Even if “superintelligence” arrives, job impact will likely depend more on deployment incentives than raw capability. Those two timelines rarely match up cleanly...
This feels more like a gradual tightening of extension APIs under Manifest V3 than a sudden “kill switch.” uBlock isn’t going away, but its capabilities are definitely being reshaped...
It's all an excuse to try to neuter adblockers. The push for killing MV2 was suspiciously accelerated at the same time that youtube started implementing much more invasive anti-adblock techniques that really needed a full content blocker support (at least until people found new clever workarounds).
