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4 browsers that will continue to support uBlock Origin and other ad blockers with Manifest V2
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it’s Firefox
Vivaldi is supporting for less than a year (June 2025 it stop) and edge is unclear but may support it simultaneously (at least for now). Brave has “partial support” which means it may as well not and they’ve left a “lot of wiggle room” to drop support in their statement.
If you want to keep using ublock origin, get Firefox. You should just get Firefox because it’s the best browser for privacy/not using chromium in general and it works well.
Brave is based on Chromium, so where Chrome goes, Brave is likely to follow.
Routers and VPNs are only able to filter URLs. They have no way of manipulating the browser session, which is the other half of uBlock's functionality and why it will always be superior to PiHoles or ad-blocking DNS.
Google, for example, smuggles ads through their "good" domains on YouTube that deliver video content; at that point, it's an endless game of whack-a-mole in the dark to have a list that filters the correct URL without obliterating the ability to watch videos.
URL filtering is better than nothing, but it's not really a comparable solution.
To follow what? Brave's adblocker is not an extension and it is not affected by MV3. And it has most of uBO's features. More than I have ever used on uBO anyway.
True, uBO doesn't have a shitty cryptobro component unfortunately. Also I hate that it's not bankrolled by a conservative sociopath
Yawn... Any technical point?
Right the only thing that matters is technology. That's why I think Facebook has the right to facilitate genocides any time they want! /s