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by croes 876 days ago
Brave"s support of Manifest V3 is totally dependent on Google and Chrome

>Brave will support uBO and uMatrix so long as Google doesn’t remove underlying V2 code paths (which seem to be needed for Chrome for enterprise support, so should stay in the Chromium open source)

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1534893414579249152

2 comments

It doesn't really matter much in practice. The built-in adblocker (which does not rely on extension APIs) has excellent performance, about as effective as ublock origin, and supports the same filter lists.
It does matter if you use other extensions that require Manifest V2
The built-in adblocker still relies on a large amount of extension APIs.
Yeah, but the Brave adblocker is built-in, it's not an extension.
There are more extensions than just ad blockers