Manifest V3 will not prevent Brave from blocking ads. We built ad blocking into the browser itself so it will not be affected by Google changing its rules for extensions.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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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.
This is a very good question I'd also like to know the answer to
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.
I mean, I donβt 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
Brave is absolut garbage anyway. Force them to use Firefox over security concerns.
Fennec is even better than Firefox, it's the same source but recompiled to allow all add-ons in the main app. So basically a stable Firefox nightly, if you wish.
It's maintained by the folks behind the f-droid app store themselves, so arguably a highly trusted source.
Sync to Firefox desktop fully implemented and working.
Can you provide reasons for your claim? I'm curious to know what makes Brave garbage
Chromium, The company behind it... How it looks... Shadiness.
For one thing, Brave's CEO is an antivax conspiracionist. The browser itself is also not that great in the first place. Better than chrome itself, sure, but still miles behind Edge or Vivaldi (to speak only about Chromium based browsers).
True concern from a person that just got rid of chrome (finally) and switched to brave, how is it garbage? o_o
One thing that rings alarm bells for me is that they have a built-in adblocker, but you can enable Brave's ads instead and get a cryptocurrency reward. Brave takes 30% cut on the ads they show this way, so they are essentially replacing the website's monetization with their own monetization. Kind of scummy, and it being a cryptocurrency also looks grifty.
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ (See "what % of ad revenue"...)
Secondly, the founder has really awful politics, but I will leave that to the reader.
It is best to move to Firefox because fundamentally the chromium project thrives because of Google ,an Ad company. It is not worth using chromium derivatives.