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Scokee
646 days ago
Why do you think this would happen? Brave incorporates ublock as part of their Rust based adblocking library
https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
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josephcsible
646 days ago
Because eventually there will be enough changes to the upstream Chromium codebase that the only way to keep these extensions working would be to stop following upstream, which would mean massively increased development costs.
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porridgeraisin
646 days ago
But they don't do adblocking with ublock, so it'll be safe
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joecot
646 days ago
Chrome is going to continue supporting v2 extensions for enterprise users, so presumably it'll be pretty trivial to keep support for everyone else.
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josephcsible
646 days ago
Google says that's only going to last one additional year, not forever.
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gertop
646 days ago
They don't use ublock.
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