I wouldn't be surprised if the people that did care about that internally at Google either used something like Firefox or had their private build that can run uBlock or similar ;)

Enterprise editions of Chrome continue to have manifest v2 support, so this doesn't necessarily affect Google employees.

> Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker?

Chrome still has many ad blockers. While I use chrome/chromium fairly little, ublock origin lite has worked well for me when I do. I'm aware older manifest V2 extensions are theoretically superior at blocking a wide variety of undesired content but if your main concern is not seeing ads, that is absolutely doable.

If you've never used an ad blocker, I guess it may just be the normal web rather than anything terrible. Because ad blocking isn't illegal, it may not be quite as bad as a Disney employee pirating all their movies, but I suspect it's still not that common (at least most people I knew while there didn't use one, and of course I was happy to install one again the day after leaving).

Is it that bad with ublock lite ?

> Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker?

You realize these people pay check depend on that, right?