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Do you need ublock origin in Brave Browser?

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, but you better ditch brave and set up Firefox. They did some shady shit in the past and tried to deny or cover it up.

https://lemmy.world/post/2846523

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

And it’s based on Chromium which does the open web no favors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Librewolf is probably a safer choice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Mull is basically LibreWolf on mobile, even has uBlock in the add-on's too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mull and Tor browser for android, Librewolf and Tor browser for PC

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

Mulch, focus on security (same as Bromite), OE Mull, focus on privacy, both can be installed from F-Droid

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

Fennec (Firefox for Android) with uBlock and NoScript

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

This is the right answer.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Lots of Firefox fanboys on here I see....

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

The Brave ad blocker is based on uBlock Origin, AFAIK, so no, you don’t need it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure why you're getting downvotes because you're essentially correct. Their adblocker is written in rust and they say it's based off uBO.

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

Depends on what block lists you use and how aggressive you want the filtering to be. I've been using Brave for a while and tested it with and without uBO. With Brave Shield set to aggressive blocking (what I higly recommend) it blocked about 99,5 of all the stuff uBO would block.