But how long are they going support it is the question…
I’m a big fan of Brave. It blocks ads by default
I don’t understand why it’s so popular, I tried it out but it’s just chromium with an adblocker and the crypto thing added (Which is a pain to disable it completely). It’s not bad, but it is not as good as people says
Eh, Brave has some things going for it, like its search engine which is apparently quite good. On the other hand its still chromium and thus legitimizes the Google Monopoly. Besides that, the crypto bs they have pushed in the past and the past monetary contributions to homophobic causes by the founder are a red flag as well.
For easy plug-and-play Librewolf and Mullvad Browser are probably the best. Although for most people it would probably make sense to enable specific cookies for sites they visit often so they stay logged in. Though there are probably easy tutorials for that online. Or, even better, use a password manager like bitwarden and install its respective browser plugin.
Me too, since their adblock is natively implemented it won’t be affected by manifest V3.
Even if its not affected by manifest V3 changes directly, we shouldnt forget what V3 means. It shows the direction that Google wants to take Chromium into, unsurprisingly. Google is an Ad company, making a browser that has ad-blocking or has forks (i.e. Brave) that focus on ad-blocking is against its very core goal. Manifest V3 could just be the start. We dont know what changes they have in mind that could be impossible to evade for comparatively small projects like Brave. Imagine important and big features and security updates shipped with spyware so deeply integrated that only a giant company like Google could implement it while making it impossible for any smaller company like Brave to divide. Brave would be dead over night.
@00 @Monologue @DoctorForesight @suslord Would it be feasible for Google to close the source of Chromium and/or Blink or do they have licenses that prevent it?
Another aspect that people ought to consider: monopoly is actually bad. Shocker, I know.
But if you have a corporate browser engine that pretty much controls the entire browser market, then whatever standard that browser implements it will automatically become the default. That’s bad, Google is evil.
I’ve been using Firefox since like 2010 and I don’t regret it.
My one frustration with Vivaldi is that it’s based on Chromium. Yes, it also has an adblocker, but I feel uBlock Origin is more effective! If there’s anything like Vivaldi, but with the Gecko engine, I would like to try it
