Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by ohgodplsno on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:01AM
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Until Google removes the Manifest V2 code from Chromium. Then we'll see how long Brave can hold with such a large divergence of codebases. Will they stop updating their engine and stay stuck ? Cherry-pick each and every patch ?
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Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by tyingq on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:04AM
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A fair amount of what people want wouldn't be all of Manifest V2, but just the part of onBeforeWebRequest() that's being removed.
Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by moffkalast on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:38AM
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Feels like it wouldn't be impossible to shoehorn some of the old functionality that extensions rely on into V3 without supporting V2 entirely I imagine?
Then again I'm sure Google went out of their way to make it as hard to do as they possibly can.
Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by shadowgovt on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:21AM
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This has always been the failure of the "It's open source; just fork it" attitude.
Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by seanw444 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:30AM
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Yeah, we should just do nothing instead.
Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by cercatrova on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:52PM
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Or we should use actually open source products like Firefox.
Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by Petersipoi on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @07:06PM
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Less secure than Chromium and receives 90% of its funding from Google. No exactly the perfect browser people make it out to be.
Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
by mardifoufs on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:36PM
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Manifest v3 only affects extensions. Brave has a native adblocker, that doesn't need access to the Manifest API.