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Brave's built in adblocker is on par to uBlock Origin for me.

wolvoleo 2mo ago
Does it have the same configurability though? Custom lists and the like? I really need those. I'd use Brave if someone made a fork with all the BAT token stuff removed but I haven't seen one.
- qwerpy 2mo ago
  Brave still maintains MV2 support (for now) so you get to use full-fat uBlock Origin. Eventually, I imagine they'll tire of it, say "well just use the built-in one", and get rid of MV2 when it gets too obnoxious to maintain. I go through a 5 minute ritual every time I reimage/build a PC of installing Brave and disabling all the garbage on it. It's worth it to get Chromium compatibility and speed with uBlock Origin.
  - wolvoleo 2mo ago
    Ah I prefer firefox anyway. It has some features I can't do without. Like the multi-account containers. And its sync that is end to end encrypted. But I might have a look at brave for the 1-2 sites I still use chromium for because they don't work with firefox properly (especially Microsoft 365 of course, as usual).
- sjs382 2mo ago
  > I'd use Brave if someone made a fork with all the BAT token stuff removed but I haven't seen one. https://brave.com/origin/ https://brave.com/origin/
  - wolvoleo 2mo ago
    It's nice and I didn't know about it but I wouldn't pay for it. Not for another chromium browser. I would easily pay 60/yr for firefox though if Mozilla would let me. I'm not donating to the foundation, they waste too much money on stuff that doesn't matter. I don't want them to be an NGO, I just want them to make a good browser :)
    - siliconpotato 2mo ago
      They have a store selling caps, t-shirts and keyboards. That's one way to donate while getting cool stuff
      - wolvoleo 2mo ago
        Isn't that the same problem though, that the profit goes to the foundation not the corporation? However it is a nice idea, I would love a firefox mug or something. Microsoft has lobbied our company to remove firefox and chrome from all computers so we must use edge everywhere and it would be a nice passive-agressive move for me to have firefox merchandise everywhere. I work in IT so the people that decided this shit are around me.
- _imnothere 2mo ago
  I tried to get myself a custom "Brave Origin" some time ago, but just like upstream Chromium, some related code are just poorly guarded, it's not really trivial to do it and keep it up with upstream.
  - wolvoleo 2mo ago
    Ah interesting, I didn't know Brave Origin even existed. It's not something I'd pay for though. I'd pay for firefox but not another chromium browser.
- antibarbarus 2mo ago
  Brave sort of created that themselves, it’s called Brave Origin and allows you to have a browser without all the cruft compiled in. Believe it or not, it’s meant to be a paid product, but it’s (intentionally) free on Linux. Now, on Linux there’s also a setting in regular Brave which allows you to uncover per-feature switches to disable offending elements and retain some, which is the way I use it, to avoid having to reinstall Brave. I’m guessing this isn’t available on Windows without getting a licence? Regardless, Zen is still the better main browser, particularly on Linux... but Brave is a fine second choice IMHO.

Does it have the same configurability though? Custom lists and the like? I really need those. I'd use Brave if someone made a fork with all the BAT token stuff removed but I haven't seen one.

qwerpy 2mo ago
Brave still maintains MV2 support (for now) so you get to use full-fat uBlock Origin. Eventually, I imagine they'll tire of it, say "well just use the built-in one", and get rid of MV2 when it gets too obnoxious to maintain. I go through a 5 minute ritual every time I reimage/build a PC of installing Brave and disabling all the garbage on it. It's worth it to get Chromium compatibility and speed with uBlock Origin.
- wolvoleo 2mo ago
  Ah I prefer firefox anyway. It has some features I can't do without. Like the multi-account containers. And its sync that is end to end encrypted. But I might have a look at brave for the 1-2 sites I still use chromium for because they don't work with firefox properly (especially Microsoft 365 of course, as usual).
sjs382 2mo ago
> I'd use Brave if someone made a fork with all the BAT token stuff removed but I haven't seen one. https://brave.com/origin/ https://brave.com/origin/
- wolvoleo 2mo ago
  It's nice and I didn't know about it but I wouldn't pay for it. Not for another chromium browser. I would easily pay 60/yr for firefox though if Mozilla would let me. I'm not donating to the foundation, they waste too much money on stuff that doesn't matter. I don't want them to be an NGO, I just want them to make a good browser :)
  - siliconpotato 2mo ago
    They have a store selling caps, t-shirts and keyboards. That's one way to donate while getting cool stuff
    - wolvoleo 2mo ago
      Isn't that the same problem though, that the profit goes to the foundation not the corporation? However it is a nice idea, I would love a firefox mug or something. Microsoft has lobbied our company to remove firefox and chrome from all computers so we must use edge everywhere and it would be a nice passive-agressive move for me to have firefox merchandise everywhere. I work in IT so the people that decided this shit are around me.
_imnothere 2mo ago
I tried to get myself a custom "Brave Origin" some time ago, but just like upstream Chromium, some related code are just poorly guarded, it's not really trivial to do it and keep it up with upstream.
- wolvoleo 2mo ago
  Ah interesting, I didn't know Brave Origin even existed. It's not something I'd pay for though. I'd pay for firefox but not another chromium browser.
antibarbarus 2mo ago
Brave sort of created that themselves, it’s called Brave Origin and allows you to have a browser without all the cruft compiled in. Believe it or not, it’s meant to be a paid product, but it’s (intentionally) free on Linux. Now, on Linux there’s also a setting in regular Brave which allows you to uncover per-feature switches to disable offending elements and retain some, which is the way I use it, to avoid having to reinstall Brave. I’m guessing this isn’t available on Windows without getting a licence? Regardless, Zen is still the better main browser, particularly on Linux... but Brave is a fine second choice IMHO.