I’ve read some things online about it all but I’m not a total IT boff. Is it really true that Brave browser won’t be able to block ads once the changes are made next year?

Ps. I use Firefox with uBlock but my SO and most of my clients absolutely love Brave

  • SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Out of interest, since Chromium is open source, is there anything stopping Opera, Edge, Brave, etc. just mantaining support for the old manifest? Like, I’m not sure why this is such a big deal for anything other than Chrome and Chromium.

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      1 year ago

      Because nearly 90% of users use Chrome or a derivative thereof. People can make a V3 version for Chrome and a V2 version for other browsers, but the APIs are nowhere near compatible, so it’s a lot of extra work. If you just make a V3 version, it will work on any updated browser.

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      1 year ago

      When you do that you’d have to port every single security patch and new feature manually into your fork. And it gets even worse: Because you deviate from the original implementation you continue to use outdated code that nobody is patching at all.

      So you can absolutely do that, but in a year you’ll have your own browser with tons of security issues and no manpower to find and fix them.

      Basically you’d be using an old browser version.