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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      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.

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      1 year ago

      True concern from a person that just got rid of chrome (finally) and switched to brave, how is it garbage? o_o

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        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.

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    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.

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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.

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      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.

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      When you do that you’d have to port every single security patch and new feature manually into your fork. And it gets even worse: Because you deviate from the original implementation you continue to use outdated code that nobody is patching at all.

      So you can absolutely do that, but in a year you’ll have your own browser with tons of security issues and no manpower to find and fix them.

      Basically you’d be using an old browser version.