brave is awesome and they are going to continue to support manifest v2 after chrome pulls the plug for these 4 extensions. Brave is way better with ublock origin and It is ok to use it with there other block features. Just paste brave://settings/extensions/v2 into the url to see the 4 extensions you can use without having to download them elsewhere. info on this https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

just use brave to get all the features he mentions including sync and there are other chromium based browsers with those features also. You basically only use chrome if you prefer spyware and want to make it easier for others to track you online since I have never seen a feature on chrome that can not be found elsewhere.

Ah, I see. I happen to be running Debian Bookworm on my daily driver desktop, and it has both Firefox and Chromium. When viewing such content with Chromium (or Firefox), generally VLC comes up, thanks to MIME types. But I don’t know if the Rocky/Alma Linux distros come with VLC or its set of codecs (I hope they do!), so I see your point; your solution may be a good option for those folks if VLC isn’t an option.

Shame about software patents. We wouldn’t have this problem had the Bilski decision gone the other way.

Chromium is missing a few features that come built into Google Chrome, like support for particular media codecs (AAC, H.264/AVC, MP3, HEVC) and sync capabilities—features some users expect by default.