Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google

Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by qwerpy on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @02:39PM (#43346356)

Right but in my non-scientific test I found uBlock to work better so I don’t use the Brave blocker. My prediction is that Brave will eventually say that it’s too costly to maintain v2 in their fork and that people should just use the Brave blocker.

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by porridgeraisin on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:48PM (#43346968)

Interesting. What are you noticing? I might run ublock on top as well if it's worth it.

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by mastazi on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:28PM (#43349506)

Brave has built-in functionality that can replace uBO, but it doesn't replace all of the other Manifestv2-only extensions that are not necessarily adblockers. For example https://libredirect.github.io/faq.html#chrome_web_store

> We can't publish LibRedirect to the Chrome Web Store as it requires Manifest v3, which removed essential features that LibRedirect needs.

uBlock Origin is just the tip of the iceberg since it's the most popular one, there is an entire ecosystem of Mv2 extensions that can never be replaced by Brave's built in functionality

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by porridgeraisin on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:51AM (#43350885)

My parent poster and I mentioned specifically ublock origin features

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by notpushkin on Thursday March 13, 2025 @01:02AM (#43350536)

I’m wondering why Chrome forks don’t just maintain a shared patch enabling MV2.

That said, uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

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