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by Timja 1342 days ago
This touches on the topic of who writes it. Yes, it is nicer to have it written by a big player like Brave than by some guy from the internet.

But why did Brave have to put it into their browser and did not publish it as a plugin?

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> But why did Brave have to put it into their browser and did not publish it as a plugin?

I don't know if they do that in this case, but one could assume having access to non-public internal APIs might improve filtering capabilities/performance.

For example if brave was to implement manifest v3, it wouldn't impact their built-in ad/cookie blocking features.