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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Other Chromium browser vendors have claimed that they will continue to support MV2 based content blockers, later revealing that they were unwilling to support the code once Google removed it.

Xitter doesn't load for me but this is quoting Brave so I'm not so sure about that

(edit: Though I think Brave has a builtin adblocker so you may not even need it. However, just don't use Chromium anything at all)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Xitter doesn't load for me

xcancel.com still works... for now.

Though I think Brave has a builtin adblocker

Further down the article it says "Brave has a number of feature gaps compared to uBlock Origin, resulting in worse effectiveness as well." It's hard to beat uBO.

[–] that_leaflet 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe Brave’s ad blocker is based on uBlock.

[–] deanne 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

nope, it's made from scratch in rust

[–] that_leaflet 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're right, I found it here. I thought it was based on uBlock because there's a UI somewhere in Brave for ad blocking that is suspiciously close to uBlock's UI for blocking specific elements on a site.

[–] deanne 1 points 1 day ago

there's also a phyton library that lets you use brave's adblocker on other browsers like qutebrowser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

oh, thx for saying. i also thought it was based on ublock, though im not sure where i got that information from