Damn that sucks UOrigin is bomb. Google is dumb to remove it. Brave still has it and Firefox still has it.
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...and Mozilla based browsers should continue doing so
Brave is Chromium based
...and de-select Google as default search engine.
yeah, definitely 
Guessing they're trying to make a little income, and they have the forks sticking with the plot, but if Mozilla ever went bust, or wasn't in the picture...
Exactly.
Nooooooooo ... I would be shattered, I've used Firefox (and forks) since Firefox 1.0
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I was thinking, I wonder if I could add Ublock Origin to Chromium browser maybe using this tool or alternatively going into config which I did for Ungoogled Chromium?
the tool ...
I did this and it worked and now I have Ublock Origin on Chromium browser 
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I just added Ublock Origin to Chromium with the same method used for Ungoogled Chromium
... see my post above 
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MajorGeeks has the latest Ublock origin for download as a couple of days ago.
LibreWolf is an fantastic fork of firefox, i've been using for awhile now as Brave didn't support 'cookie exceptions' last i looked. (please correct me if this has now changed). My 2 cents worth, browsers are always going to be persona choice.l
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"Dumb" is not exactly the word I would use here, since they are the ones doing the push for having ads everywhere. "Evil" would be closer, since they are getting rid of a useful tool because it gives them less money (which would make sense and be somewhat understandable for a small business that's about to go bankrupt... but, out of all companies, Google has no excuse)
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The reason ad blockers exist is not because there are ads.
They are a response to aggressive and invasive ads. Many of us remember when ads would pop up, taking focus on the screen over and over. What good was it to visit a website and be so heavily targeted by pop up ads that you spent most of your time trying to click them closed? Google is front and center on overly-aggressive advertising.
Even now, since Google bought YouTube, they have increased how aggressive ads are. It used to be that when you paused a video played on Android phone, it just paused the video. Now, it reduces the video window when you pause it and places an advertisement to one side. I often pause to read print that the video displays or get a closer look at a small part or feature that is the purpose of watching the video - their shrinkage of the display and ad completely disrupts this.
They increased ad frequency by a large margin, as well.
Ad Blockers fight back against this aggressive and invasive style of advertising. The appropriate response from Google, which is actually a Marketing Company, would be to balance their advertising. Instead, they try to tromp out anything that gets in their way.
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Exactly 100% this! When that started, I was going out of my mind. There should actually be a law against that form of add bombardment. Problem is, most people in government are really old, and barely know what the internet is, let alone how it works, to even care.
Thats another one too, not only have I seen it on YouTube, but other sites as well. Also, when a video itself has 30 adds for a 1 to 2 hour video, thats flippin insane! Google got smart and blocked my access to using YouTube, when it saw I was using an add blocker, so I was forced to pay for YouTube Premium. At least I don't have to bother seeing stupid humans in adds no more, that alone is worth the cost for Premium, I swear some adults are as bad as children.
That right there, is where the problem stems from. Google doesn't care how much their adds infuriate us to no end, they only care about the money, which is why their one of the largest companies in the world.
I used to not mind ads on youtube. I was fine with it because they were tolerable and kept the service free
Slowly, ads were getting longer and there were multiple of them. It could also happen that I just finished skipping some, then fast-forward through a video because there's too much filler in the introduction or I'm looking for something that appears later, and then... I'm hit with another pair of ads. Then there are ads that are longer than the videos themselves for videos that aren't very long
Then there are android apps: I got my first tablet when I was around 12, so of course I was interested in the games... that's my first experience with ad-blocking (in the form of turning off wifi connection): If I remember right, I didn't mind the ads that appeared in the pause menu in Angry Birds: they didn't disrupt the game and kept it sustainable as a free game without microtransactions. If every game -for console, mobile, or pc- was free but with non-disrputive ads like that, I would be fine with it. Then I went to take a look at more games... animated and changing banners on the top or bottom of the screen being incredibly distracting, FULLSCREEN ads which were sometimes unskippable, "We care about your privacy, accept all cookies or spend 10 minutes managing your options" (as a kid i dont remember if that one was there or if i just accepted them all without thinking. Nowadays, I know some apps have it and it's quite annoying when I have to go through it).
When I got my first laptop, it was an used windows xp laptop with 1 GB of ram in somewhere around 2016, so the web browser took ages to open and even once it was open, it was very slow. You can imagine how animated ad banners made it worse... I didn't know about ad blockers, so what I used to do was click on the x button of the ad and it would get removed for a minute or two, increasing a bit the speed of the laptop until another ad took its place
My next laptop was much more decent, but still not blazing fast, and windows 10 made it sometimes feel even slower than the windows xp one, mostly on the file explorer... And with ads taking more space and being more distracting than ever, discovering ad blockers was a blessing, mostly as someone who gets distracted incredibly easy by moving objects
As for youtube... truth is, the biggest reason I use a 3rd party app isn't because of the ads (that's part of the reason, but not big enough to make it worth it for me), it's because of the algorithm. At some point I was quite addicted to youtube, and I blame how the algorithm and the endless scrolling works for that. One option would be to use it without an account, but then I would have to manually search each channel I'm interested in manually to see if they uploaded something or not. The app I use gets rid of the endless scrolling and the "personalized recommendations" by having no account login and saving the subscriptions locally. Nowadays the addiction is well over and I still watch videos from channels I'm interested in, so going back to the official youtube app would be like trying to smoke after quitting smoking... As for when I want to watch videos on a computer instead: my previous laptop took quite long to load everything, but once it loaded it was fine... until the ad came in and surprisingly loaded very fast, and then even after the ad ends I had to wait for the video to catch momentum loading again, which was quite annoying (funny enough, that was around 2018 on windows, but on 2023 on linux I didn't have to worry about taking so long to load, so my experience could certainly have been different if I used linux back then). Nowadays, I have a more capable laptop, but it only turns on the fans at above 55ºC, which I assume is pretty bad for the battery, so I rarely watch videos there, and when I do, I'd rather not increase that temperature even more
Then there is privacy concerns with all the "personalized ads" thing, and scams slipping into the ads because of a lack of quality control are concerning too
I hate how modern technology has adopted ads, but I don't hate the concept of ads themselves: the way TV channels handle ads is probably the best one, as no ad is going to distract you from what you are watching and your personal information isn't being played with by hundreds of companies behind your back. Ads interrupting movies are a different case though, but at least not all channels do it