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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by molticrystal on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:00PM (#23442604)
How is the android scene for Chromium based browsers that either have extension support or adblockers?

I am aware only of Yandex & Kiwi as Chromium browsers that support extensions that allow you to install an adblocker. So perhaps Brave is trying to integrate itself there somehow by having it built in.

Anybody know a better breakdown than this for mobile browser market share? https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world... It says Chromium is 61% and Yandex is 0.1% but it would be nice to see if Brave was included or not.

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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by SahAssar on Saturday June 06, 2020 @07:19PM (#23443221)
Why is firefox on android not an option for you?
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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by kagenouta on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:39PM (#23444578)
Brave and a couple of others are actually getting extension support in the near term because Kiwi recently went FOSS.
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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by aasasd on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:55PM (#23443075)
Yandex is the company whose sites actively fight ad-blocking more than anyone else of whom I know. Afaik Yandex is just not in the uBO lists anymore, because it was no use changing the filters again and again. So I guess Yandex might allow installing filters which can't catch it anyway, but I wonder if it won't cripple the extension somehow for good measure.
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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by Markoff on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:07AM (#23445160)
their browser doesn't affect functionality of ublock, but it's not good browser anyway, trying to show down your throat many intrusive features by default
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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by dbeley on Saturday June 06, 2020 @08:18PM (#23443546)
Try Firefox Preview
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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by hadrien01 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:32AM (#23446023)
I use Samsung Browser with Adguard and I'm very satisfied. You also have the DuckDuckGo browser. I don't know if Edge supports extensions.
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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by Markoff on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:04AM (#23445147)
ungoogled chromium now supports extensions too but it's very alpha functionality

brave promises extensions by the end of June, they already shown working prototype in Twitter

so next to outdated kiwi, shady yandex and experimental ungoogled i have my biggest hopes for brave as current kiwi user who needs ublock

if you want to stay updated follow kiwi discord channel

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Re:The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting a... by chewz on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:44AM (#23444818)
On Android give Privacy Browser a try.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser....

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