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Wtf, simply not true: Brave: chrome://flags/#brave-extensions-manifest-v2 > brave://settings/extensions/v2 > Enable uBlock Origin (Brave-hosted, even better).
by eahm 3mo ago
Wtf, simply not true:
Brave: chrome://flags/#brave-extensions-manifest-v2 > brave://settings/extensions/v2 > Enable uBlock Origin (Brave-hosted, even better).
Helium comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed.
Edge even still has it https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-ori...
And I'm sure others ...I personally only use/test Brave, Brave Origin, Helium and Firefox.
- LeoPanthera 3mo agoThe title says "major browser", which none of those are.
- Aldo_MX 3mo agoBrave surely is a major browser with 100+M MAU, not too distant from Firefox with 150+M MAU.
- hackernud3s 3mo agoBrave blocks those ads anyway so no point in Ublock, maybe that's why it's left out. It does inject it's own ads though, and then there's all the crypto nonsense.
- ipsum2 3mo agoBrave adblocking breaks some websites that uBlock Origin doesn't.
- brewdad 3mo agoLately I’ve had better luck with Brave than with FF and UBO, at least one my various banking sites.
- EbNar 3mo agoAds on Brave are opt-in (and not embedded on webpages anyway) and the "crypto nonsense" is a way for them to try to stay afloat without having to accept money from Google and the likes.
- hackernud3s 3mo agoLet's hear it then because I'm using Brave and don't see the opt-out.
- miladyincontrol 3mo agohttps://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-How-do-I-hide-or-disable-features-in-Brave https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H... and simply dont use their homepage as your new tab page
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- hackernud3s 3mo agoCheers!
- SahAssar 3mo agoThey are opt-out, not opt-in. Big difference.
- EbNar 3mo agoOpt-in. Someone else linked Brave's blog below. Read it. https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-How-do-I-hide-or-disable-features-in-Brave https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H...
- yawndex 3mo agoHave you ever actually used Brave? Because then you would have noticed the huge glowing opt-out billboard of a new tab page.
- ticulatedspline 3mo agoTechnically Firefox isn't a major browser either.
- inigyou 3mo agoFirefox is less popular than some of the browsers you listed as not major, so it isn't major either
- loeg 3mo agoWell, Edge probably counts. I agree about the others.
- culi 3mo agoEdge is a major browser but is dropping support
- tech234a 3mo agoEdge will lose it within the next few months: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/08/07/moving-the-microsoft-edge-extensions-ecosystem-forward-with-manifest-version-3/ https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/08/07/moving-the-mi...
- Scoundreller 3mo agoRIP corporate users that can't install their own browsers but can install extensions
- CSMastermind 3mo agoAhh so this will be what moves me off of Edge. Microsoft has almost entirely pushed me out of their ecosystem at this point.
- culi 3mo agoEdge is dropping support. Helium is not a major browser. Brave is the only one that might be considered a valid point. However, because of Chromium dropping support they've had to implement a custom bypass to support Manifest v2 and they are also hosting a version of uBlock Origin for Chromium on their own servers. It's really questionable how long this state of affairs can go on for. Brave has said they will support it "as long as they are able" but Google could easily just remove the `webRequest` API from Chromium or the engineering burden to keep it alive might just get to be too much Unfortunately, I think it has an expiration date on any Chromium-based browser.
- eahm 3mo agoAgree on the last part, let’s see for how long.. but for now it’s simply not true.
- grishka 3mo agoI use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.
- orphea 3mo agoLatest Vivaldi on Linux (8.1.4087.66, Chromium 150). uBlock Origin works.
- sebstefan 3mo agoOpera also claims they are committed to support manifest V2 forever.
- KellyCriterion 3mo ago....until then when big money starts knocking.