Is this to stop the last bit of identity freedom - read privacy?

[polonus]

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html
No more support for Chromium apps on Linux, Macs and Windows in the near future.
The Matrix clamps are coming down, folks, slowely but surely.
The going gets narrow - extensions move to a website that acts as a kind of MiM.
When that comes in, wave good-bye to your last bit of privacy and Internet freedom.
No more nukeanything, noscript, starting from the beginning of  2018.
Good for firefox, maybe, but less choice, a bad development for the end-user.

polonus

[bob3160]

If the demand is great enough, a third party will step up. they always have in the past.

[DavidR]

I can't see the point of all of this, e.g. how will it affect me or millions of others like myself.   I don't have a chromebook nor do I have any chrome apps.

[Asyn]

I can't see the point of all of this, e.g. how will it affect me or millions of others like myself.   I don't have a chromebook nor do I have any chrome apps.

+1

[polonus]

Feel like bob3160,

When Google Chrome does not allow extensions on Windows anymore, Vivaldi may or Sleipnir.

I am gonna worry the moment when for instance firefox browser and extensions and others get banned from various platforms
to no longer hinder big player's adware (Google, Bing, facebook, etc.).

Again then that will be very decision, if one cannot even block mal-ads any longer.

Let us wait how far they will go taking the browser further out of the user's hands.

polonus

[DavidR]

Even better as I don't use Chrome Browser either.

However, it doesn't seem like a sensible decision on the part of Google - I though they had a lot more smarts than this - cutting off millions of current and future users by killing the chrome browser on windows, when there are other options out there.

As Bob mentioned, this is an opportunity for third parties to step into the void.