Problem with Chrome-based browsers on older hardware

Just a heads up for anyone using a Chrome-based browser on their older Mac with OCLP:

I've been running Brave browser on my 2009 Macbook Pro in Ventura for a while now but after a recent update it seems that hardware graphics acceleration is no longer working. Even the usual workaround of disabling the blocklist doesn't work either.

After looking at brave://gpu I can see that the GPU doesn't initialise because OpenGL ES3 is not supported by the driver. That led me to this post here on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/opengl/comments/1rrky5h/modern_browsers_just_silently_killed_gpu/

I know this looks like AI slop but unfortunately it does seem to explain what's going on. On the same computer in Linux I still have GPU acceleration in Brave because the Nouveau driver has OpenGL ES 3.0 support but it no longer works in Ventura.

Anyone else similarly affected?

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