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Do you mean that particular adblocker is not impacted or is Brave going to maintain support for the APIs dropped by Manifest v3?
by contravariant 4y ago
Do you mean that particular adblocker is not impacted or is Brave going to maintain support for the APIs dropped by Manifest v3?
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- bkallus 4y agoBoth. "We will continue to support Manifest v2 to the extent that we can" "Brave's adblocker (Brave Shields) is not an extension, and is natively implemented. So, it will be totally unaffected." Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/rdab12/how_will_manifest_v3_affect_adblocking_on_brave/ https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/rdab12/how_w...
- nightpool 4y agoBrave has committed to retaining support for all of the APIs that were removed by Manifest v3 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/20059#issuecomment-992720832 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/20059#issuecom... (There are other mentions in the wiki and other places)
- antonok 4y agoBrendan Eich has committed to supporting the Manifest V2 version of uBlock Origin in Brave [1]. Brave's built-in native adblocker also definitely won't be affected, as it doesn't use any webextension APIs at all. [1]: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/discussions/14544#discussioncomment-3490321 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/discussions/14544#di...
- therealmarv 4y agoBrave's adblocker is internal and written in Rust. https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust I'm pretty sure it's also faster than any adblock extension like uBlock.