Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Vivaldi (and Brave I think) are safe until July 2025.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Honest question: why is it not safe after then? They developed their own adblocker if I'm not mistaken? What am I missing?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm using the word "safe" here to mean "dependable". As in, you can depend on Vivaldi to support v2 manifest addons (of which uBlock is one). If you use any addons you like that require v2 manifest in a Chromium based browser, you can Vivaldi (or Brave, I believe) to continue to support your desired addons until July 2025. After July 2025, the code in the browser that allows v2 manifest addons will be removed from all supported Chromium browsers (that I'm aware of).

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What makes you say this? Brave is my primary and doesn’t need uBlock to effectively block ads

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My comment is specifically around v2 Manifest support for addons. uBlock Origin requires v2 manifest. If you're fine without it, you can't ignore all of this discussion. However, uBlock Origin can block more than ads.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I will probably need to switch over to firefox if Brave is gonna break. Are the blockers in Brave V2 do you know?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I don't know. I'm not a Brave user. I saw the v2 Manifest comments elsewhere when looking at Vivaldi info, and it was also mentioned Brave was following the same July 2025 as Vivaldi for v2 manifest (old school addon format) support.

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