If someone is fixated on using chrome, so far there is still a workaround:

https://www.neowin.net/guides/you-can-still-enable-ublock-origin-in-chrome-here-is-how/

Other than that, just switch to Firefox.

Google is chasing the “ease of use aspect”. A mobile OS has to have a notes app, a mail app, a chat app (in Google’s case abundance of chat apps) and a podcast app. Google can track your personal podcast preferences, listening habits, etc.

Personally, I would not choose to use any default Google app. There are lots of better alternatives.

I think the reason is lemmy.world’s security problems that happened lately. I had the same behavior from both Liftoff and Jerboa.