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Brave said they'll try to maintain limited support for MV2 for only 4 specific extensions, but recommend Brave Shields as the go-to adblocker for the future. Go
by goldenarm 8mo ago
Brave said they'll try to maintain limited support for MV2 for only 4 specific extensions, but recommend Brave Shields as the go-to adblocker for the future. Google is about to remove most of the MV2 code from the codebase, which will explode the complexity soon.
https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/ https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
- wolvoleo 8mo agoBrave has perverse incentives to discontinue it because of their BAT crypto business model that rewards looking at ads. Unfortunately even the fully open source Firefox isn't immune to the pressure from the advertising industry, with all their Google funding and their purchase of anonym.
- 0-_-0 8mo agoYou have no idea how BAT ads work in brave, do you?
- wolvoleo 8mo agoI do, but even though they're not in the webpage itself and are as such not affected by the adblocker, brave still has an interest in the advertising industry. Many if not most of their advertising clients would use regular internet ads as well.
- j16sdiz 8mo agohave you consider the possibility that... it is just too much work to merge/port the code when upstream is actively breaking them?
- jollyllama 8mo agoWhat's the big deal? Brave's native adblocker works pretty well.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoFor me it's uBlock origin or bust :) I have a lot of custom rules in it too.
- jollyllama 8mo agoFair enough, to each their own. I don't know if it's configurable at a file level but in the Brave settings you kind of can add your own rules. And you do have a point if the inability to use custom rules in private mode is enabled. It's pretty pernicious how they disabled that.