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Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (www.neowin.net)
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For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

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[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 month ago

Brave is essentially malware

[-] gemakey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

How so? I've been using Firefox for years. Started trying Brave the other day and it's extremely resource heavy. With a few background tabs it runs like shit on a Pixel 10 Pro XL and i7-10510 running EndeavourOS with 32GB. I also have a Pixel 8 Pro running Graphene and it also runs like shit there. I haven't been impressed with legit Brave, now hearing a malware claim is kinda funny.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's resource heavy because it's malware. 90% of what does is record your entire browser usage in order to better send ads at you.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

They have pulled quite a few shenannigans. Vivaldi is clean as a whistle so far. Also, based in Europe, and developed by the original Opera (Chinese owned now) developers, which have a great record.

[-] timestatic@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

I dont use or like Brave that much but its definitely not Malware. This is how we lose normies. They use google chrome or whatever and infighting tells them "look this significantly more private product is awful". We kinda gotta stop doing that. That had some scretchy incidents with referral links but their BAT thing is like whatever. You dont have to use it. Their defaults are much more private then all the other mainstream chromium browsers. And it Open Source. I also think their development for their search engine has been interesting.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Vivaldi if you want chromium based. Very good privacy and ad blocking out of the box Also, based in Norway, so your privacy is preserved a lot better than Brave which is based in the US, so your data is compromised by default

Firefox, or derivatives.

So yeah, Brave is a bad choice

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