alt Hacker NewsThank God for the Brave browser. For those disliking their built-in adblocker, there is a Manifest v2 opt-out specifically for uBlock if you need it.
Replies
AstralSerenity • yesterday at 10:28 PM
Peter Theil was an angel investor in Brave. That alone is all the reason privacy-minded users need to avoid it.
➕ show 3 replies
jollyllama • yesterday at 7:50 PM
It's good but I find they EOL devices/OS's earlier than Firefox.
matheusmoreira • yesterday at 10:36 PM
It's certainly better than stock Chrome but Firefox becoming relevant again is still the ideal option.
➕ show 1 reply
ipsum2 • today at 12:06 AM
Brave is great. Works across windows/mac/ios/android/linux.
odidiejdiwjd • yesterday at 10:17 PM
Isn’t Brave just another Chromium variant?
Chromium is detestable. In whatever form it takes.
➕ show 1 reply
iLoveOncall • today at 5:42 AM
Brave is malware, I don't understand how anyone on HN can use it, baffles me every time.
They've literally been caught MITMing web pages for their own financial gains.
➕ show 2 replies
It's on a time limit. Chromium deprecated MV2 but still keeps the webRequest API in the codebase. Google could at any time decide to strip it entirely. Or it could just stop working due to lack of maintenance as Chromium grows.
Brave is relying on a fork that takes advantage of the fact that the webRequest API is still technically there