uBlock Origin will soon stop functioning in Chrome as Google transitions to new browser extension rules.

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      3 months ago

      Meh, Brave is still Chroium. Even if they continue to support manifest v2, even today the are selling „good“ ads to the users. That and the Crypto bullshit they tried a while ago makes them untrustworthy in my eyes.

      Firefox is the only real alternative.

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      3 months ago

      Google put an API into Chrome that sends extra system info but only to*.google.com domains. In every Chromium browser.

      Only vivaldi caught this issue. Brave had this api enabled, most likely on accident.

      But the problem is, that chromium is just such big and complex software, when combined with development being driven by Google, it’s just impossible for any significant changes or auditing to be done by third parties. Google is capable of exteriting control over Brave, simply by hiding changes like above, or by making massive changes like manifest v3, which are expensive for third parties to maintain.

      Brave can maintain 1 big change to chromium, but for how long? What about 2, 3, etc.

      My other big problem with brave is that I see them somewhat mimicking Google’s beginnings. Google started out with 3 things: an ad network, a browser, and a search engine.

      Right now, Brave has those same three things. It feels very ominous to me, and I would rather not repeat the cycle of enshittification that drove me away from chrome and goolgle.