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4 browsers that will continue to support uBlock Origin and other ad blockers with Manifest V2 (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For instance, Chromium is dropping manifest v2 support, so Brave pretty much has to do the same

I don't know why we're going round and round in circles here. We've already been over this. It's not a problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here's the point since you clearly missed it:

If Brave gets even a moderate market share, Google will continue to mess them around like this as they really don't like people not seeing their adverts.

Ultimately it's software, so the Brave devs can do pretty much whatever they want, limited by the available time and money. Google's influence extends to making that either easier or harder, it much the same way as they influence the Android ecosystem.

Brave may not be particularly affected by this change, but that's besides the point. If Brave starts becoming a viable threat to Google, Google can easily start making changes to Chromium that target Brave and breaks the changes they make, just like they targeted uBlock Origin and broke it with manifest v3. Brave might be able to work around these changes, but it costs time and developer labor (i.e. money) that would have been spent elsewhere, and if Google makes things hard enough on Brave they could be forced to abandon the project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't miss anything. I've already addressed all of this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You literally haven't, except maybe by sticking your fingers in you ears and going "NUH UH"

but go on king

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Scroll up, fam.