On: Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

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Won’t Brave follow Google’s lead on this?

Gecko, WebKit and—hopefully—Ladybird are the true alternatives. I used to think this was too extreme. But the ad vendor dragging ad blockers out of the engine flipped my view.

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Brave has its own ad blocker engine built-in rather than as an extension, and it can reuse uBlock's lists

https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

I use brave on my phone and I can't really tell the difference from desktop browser+UO, so I guess it works well enough.

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Brave, like Vivaldi, I think, have developed their own ad blocker.

No idea if they will fight to keep UBlock Origin accessible or not.

I think and certainly hope that Helium will fight the good fight.

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> Won’t Brave follow Google’s lead on this?

They said they could offer limited MV2 support even after it’s fully removed from the upstream Chromium codebase.[1]

[1] https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/