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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by feverzsj on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:56AM (#46510522)
Helium is based on ungoogled-chromium. It enables manifest v2 by simply reverting some code changes made by google. So, if google decides to remove manifest v2 wholly, helium will also lost its ublock original support.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by pitkali on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:29AM (#46510718)
Removing all manifest v2 support is also a code change that can be reverted. Of course, the larger the change, the more work it's likely to require to maintain it in the future.
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