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What will happen to Brave browser after the manifest change? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by darkstar@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Brave is absolut garbage anyway. Force them to use Firefox over security concerns.

[–] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fennec is even better than Firefox, it's the same source but recompiled to allow all add-ons in the main app. So basically a stable Firefox nightly, if you wish.

It's maintained by the folks behind the f-droid app store themselves, so arguably a highly trusted source.

Sync to Firefox desktop fully implemented and working.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Mull, a fork of Fennec

[–] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh nice, I'll check that out as well. What would you call the core differences?

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Supposedly its got more security/privacy/anti-tracking. From what i can tell there is no major differences besides it using this configuration user.js by default

[–] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Ah nice, sounds great. I'll test it over the weekend when I got some free time.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you provide reasons for your claim? I'm curious to know what makes Brave garbage

[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Chromium, The company behind it... How it looks... Shadiness.

[–] Seytoux@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True concern from a person that just got rid of chrome (finally) and switched to brave, how is it garbage? o_o

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

One thing that rings alarm bells for me is that they have a built-in adblocker, but you can enable Brave's ads instead and get a cryptocurrency reward. Brave takes 30% cut on the ads they show this way, so they are essentially replacing the website's monetization with their own monetization. Kind of scummy, and it being a cryptocurrency also looks grifty.

https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ (See "what % of ad revenue"...)

Secondly, the founder has really awful politics, but I will leave that to the reader.