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Wdym? It’s also a chromium browser i.e. it’ll lose uBlock as well eventually
by ElectroNomad 2y ago
Wdym? It’s also a chromium browser i.e. it’ll lose uBlock as well eventually
- Scokee 2y agoWhy do you think this would happen? Brave incorporates ublock as part of their Rust based adblocking library https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
- josephcsible 2y agoBecause eventually there will be enough changes to the upstream Chromium codebase that the only way to keep these extensions working would be to stop following upstream, which would mean massively increased development costs.
- porridgeraisin 2y agoBut they don't do adblocking with ublock, so it'll be safe
- joecot 2y agoChrome is going to continue supporting v2 extensions for enterprise users, so presumably it'll be pretty trivial to keep support for everyone else.
- josephcsible 2y agoGoogle says that's only going to last one additional year, not forever.
- gertop 2y agoThey don't use ublock.
- tapoxi 2y agoBrave has a native ad blocker built in, so it's unaffected by changes in the extension API.
- yett 2y ago"For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix" https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/ https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
- gaws 2y agoWhy take the word of the developers of a Chromium-based browser, some of whom may not even be part of the project in the long run? Firefox is built on an entirely different engine and doesn't have this problem.
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