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submitted 13 hours ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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[-] WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 hours ago

Vivaldi is including its own adblock outside of the manifest system that uses many of the same blocklists that uBlock does (although at this point you have to add them manually) and hopes to get near the same functionality by the time it is pulled and Mv3 is implemented. They originally had plans to offer a Mv2 compliant area but after seeing how Mv3 was going to be implemented, they changed there plans to many users dismay.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee -4 points 10 hours ago

In my personal experience, and with great regret, I must say that Brave does a better job with its built-in ad blocking than Vivaldi has. Even after I did my damnedest to tweak the ad blocker settings (adding more lists from more sources, removing the "allow some ads" list, etc).

[-] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

Brave itself is filled with ads. Crypto wallets, BAT, VPNs. I just want a browser.

[-] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

But how else will Brandon Eich fund his homophobia and covid conspiracies?

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