Technology @lemmy.ml dvdnet62 @feddit.nl 4d ago

What Manifest V3 means for Brave Shields and the use of extensions in the Brave browser

brave.com What Manifest V3 means for Brave Shields and the use of extensions in the Brave browser | Brave

Brave is committed to maintaining Manifest V2 support, allowing users to keep their favorite extensions functioning beyond the industry-wide deprecation.

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Except for being on a Chromium base, I appreciate that Brave isn't sneakily turning into Chrome 2.0 like a well-known Fox is.
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It might be worth setting up a seperate Chromium extension store independent from Google
- Or even better, write userscripts that can be used anywhere instead of inside some non portable extensions framework
I'm not a crypto hater but... I used Brave for like a year or two. My mind almost melted from constantly closing ads for crypto business/scams. I made about $30 overall. Not worth it. Switched back to Firefox.
- Its my main driver. I just don't use their ads / crypto features. You can opt out ya know
- You know you can choose the number of ads served per hour? You can even just turn it off...
  
  I exchanged some BAT to bitcoin. Since then it 4x'd... Not too bad :)
I'm not using Brave and I don't like it. Personnaly if you're on desktop or laptop just use Firefox (Waterfox for soft-privacy browser, Librewolf and Mullvad for better one). Brave is firstly based on chromium, have a relation with crypto. Not my browser of choice and will never recommend it to anyone.
Fuck brave, built on chromium
- CEO is a homophobic shithead. Even if "politics" have nothing to do with the quality of software (I dont think donating to legislatures to block gay marriage is a case of "having a different political opinion"), people who care that much about how other people live their lives should NOT be trusted for a privacy respecting browser. The browser is decent, but it is stained by his presense, contributes to the chromium monoculture, and is filled with crypto bullshit.
  
  Fuck all CEOs. Stop giving them platforms & celebrity where they get to be the symbol of products/services—which discounts all the labor done into something by the real folks building & making decisions.
  
  The first point makes no sense and that's why privacy is so important - not to lose trust in this stupid and toxic society because of different opinions.
- Pretty much all browsers are. Unfortunately Chrome holds the vast majority of users and websites are built for Chrome (and Safari but I'm sure as fuck not throwing buckets at Apple for their disposable and proprietary trash).
I don't use Brave, but I did read that post because I am interested in how they are handling this. It's worth reading for that.
- Don't really need to read it.
  
  tl;dr ad-blockers are built into the browser itself so MV3 has no adverse effect on it.

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