[fyrabanks]

You can still install uBlock Origin in Brave, assuming you don't mind the crypto stuff and how they pay it out (or, rather don't) to site owners. Even Firefox feels a little weird now with the advent of Mozilla Advertising.

Very much a lesser of all evils situation.

[AstralSerenity]

You can, but ultimately Brave is downstream of Chrome and their stated intention of supporting Manifest V2 "for as long as [they're] able" doesn't inspire as much confidence.

Firefox is also the only open alternative to Chromium at the moment, so I prefer to endorse it instead.

[ray023]

Brave has its own Rust based Adblocker BUILD IN. That is at the very core of the Browser, uses the exact same filter lists uBlock Origin and all the other use. There is no point in using uBlock origin in Brave at all. I have been using Brave for years now and the adblocker pretty much like uBlock. Never looked back. I think it even inspired by uBlock but the fact they can even integrate it tighter with Chromium makes more then than an extension written in JS.

[homebrewer]

> install uBlock Origin in Brave

There's no need to do it, their built-in adblocker supports the same rule lists.

https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

[tmtvl]

But does it support blocking JavaScript, large media elements, social widgets, and fonts?

[kibae]

I switched to Brave last week after the whole Firefox fiasco. I installed uBlock Origin after there were some ads that got through.

e.g. on DuckDuckGo.

[ClikeX]

Luckily, Firefox has several forks that strip that telemetry.

[somenameforme]

Brave has a native adblocker that lets basically nothing through, though it can be configured as desired. Crypto stuff is opt-in, though there is a little monochrome button for it on the browser that one can disable with a right click.

[novemp]

Another day, another subtle insinuation that Brave is the only Chrome fork anyone uses. Are you people being paid to do this?

[antonok]

As I see it, Brave is the only Chromium-based browser with a competitive Mv2-deprecation-resistant adblocker. If adblocking is important to you - and it is, to many people - then Brave literally is the only one worth considering. Not to mention it is open source, unlike most of the others.

(I work on Brave's adblocker, and FWIW the folks who work for Brave are very open about their affiliation when commenting about it online)

[rockskon]

Or maybe it's just popular? Recommend something else if you don't like it rather than just insinuating crap about people who do.

[Novack]

It is not a subtle insinuation, Brave is the defacto only browser apart from Chrome right now. All the rest are niche and irrelevant if you measure adblock, compatibility and widely subpar privacy protection.

There is some bitching about the ads crypto token, but that is entirely optional, so complaints are mostly fear and dogma. And to be honest, is a fascinating new approach to ads that suvberts the current state of affairs in the advertising market.