Google just yanked uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store—not by accident, but as the final step in a years-long purge of Manifest V2 extensions. That matters because the Chrome Web Store isn’t just another app store; it’s the only marketplace most Chromium-based browsers let you use. Brave, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi—all of them pull their extensions from the same place. When Google flips the switch on something this big, it stops being a browser decision and becomes an ecosystem one. Technical Overview The Android browser landscape hasn’t changed much in years, but recent shifts in WebView make it worth a closer look. Chrome remains the default WebView provider on most devices, but Firefox for Android now bundles its own Gecko-based WebView that can replace it. This isn’t just about removing Google dependencies—Firefox’s WebView is a fully functional alternative with its own quirks. For most users, the swap is seamless. Firefox’s WebView integrates with the browser itself, so ...