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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not worried about this at all. I don't use Chrome anyways. I use Brave. It has a built-in ad blocker that works pretty well and I don't see that going away.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Here's the concern with Brave since it's Chromium based:

For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

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My emphasis, not theirs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't really use Brave as I don't want to support the Chromium/Blink/V8 monopoly, but aren't it's built-in "Shields" functionally equivalent to uBO but not reliant on the extension APIs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Probably, hopefully, who knows for sure. That's the problem with using an open source project run by a corporation.