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What will happen to Brave browser after the manifest change? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by darkstar to c/[email protected]

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I've read some things online about it all but I'm not a total IT boff. Is it really true that Brave browser won't be able to block ads once the changes are made next year?

Ps. I use Firefox with uBlock but my SO and most of my clients absolutely love Brave

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[–] SavvyWolf 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Out of interest, since Chromium is open source, is there anything stopping Opera, Edge, Brave, etc. just mantaining support for the old manifest? Like, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal for anything other than Chrome and Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I mean, I don’t know shit about this so I could be totally wrong here but it seems like if they did that they have to make their own fork and then patch and maintain it on their own moving forward. Doable but a lot of effort

[–] darkstar 1 points 2 years ago

This is a very good question I'd also like to know the answer to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Because nearly 90% of users use Chrome or a derivative thereof. People can make a V3 version for Chrome and a V2 version for other browsers, but the APIs are nowhere near compatible, so it's a lot of extra work. If you just make a V3 version, it will work on any updated browser.