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Brave, Ungoogled Chromium, and Helium all still support uBlock Origin.
This is not true.
The flag that UnGoogled Chromium used to support it is going away, and AFAIK there is no fix. Helium inherited the same patch from UnGoogled Chromium.
They will both lose support. See their relevant GitHub issues.
Brave uses a custom, integrated adblocking engine; it technically doesn’t need UBO.
The problem with Brave is the homophobic CEO which, at least for me, is a big no
Jfc, first they had like some coin miner, then dubious analytics or settings or something, now the head dude is a bigot? It's like an as-seen-on-TV ad: "but wait, there's more!"
Unironically, yes
https://apnews.com/general-news-d329c440023842998be70d80b69d7f46
I said these browsers currently allow installing MV2 extensions; I didn't predict about the future. Ok, ungoogled chromium will remove the flag in the future, and it can also affect helium. But it's in the future; currently that flag is still there.
Brave is sued for its shady practices, ok! But we are talking about the installation of Manifest V2 extensions in the Chromium-based browsers, which the title explicitly says Firefox is the only browser that now allows you to install ublock origin, which is misleading. Brave still supports ublock origin, no matter if someone hates the browser or someone found it self-hosted.
So what do you guys find bad about me mentioning Brave? Also please mention a word: I'm saying these browsers are going to support MV2 extensions (ublock origin) forever.
...Okay. Technically, that's true, going by strict semantics.
But the Helium and Ungoogled Chromium are going to lose MV2, soon. I feel like "still supports uBlock Origin" doesn't sufficiently convey that to Lemmy commenters trying to read the situation. That's all I meant, though I was perhaps imprecise with my words.
In other words, practically, if a users want to use UBO, they should know these browsers will not support that in the near future even if, strictly speaking, they support it right this second.
I believe this means Brave will lose support too, unless they intend to extensively modify Chromium to maintain compatibility themselves (which would be odd, as Brave doesn't really need UBO since it has its own adblocking engine?)
It’s Brave if you to mention the browser Brave here.
It's not here, dude. It's inside your mind.
Silly, but brave 🤷🏻
Its still working in Vivaldi alo. Had to re-enable it tho, it's "unsupported" but working.
It won't for long. Upstream chromium removed it and the browsers based on the code are not going to work to continue patching it in.