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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by dzhiurgis on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:16AM (#20292864)
Blacklist their user agents/fingerprints from all Google services (usually by citing some security concern).

Edit: sure, there's perhaps 1% of alt-browser users who actively avoid all Google's services, but rest actually depend on them...

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by matthewmacleod on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:58AM (#20293030)
This could happen with literally any browser and has absolutely no relation to whether or not they are based on the chromium source.
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