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by matheist 336 days ago
> We are also building an LLM-based ad-blocker after Chrome blocked uBlock Origin.

Since it's a Chromium fork, why not re-enable uBlock Origin instead?
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Daedren 336 days ago
Chromium will remove the Manifest V2 APIs, and none of these forks want to maintain them. Brave also chose to have their own built-in adblocker.

The real question is, why not opt to fork Firefox who is doing that work for them.

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felarof 335 days ago
+1, enabling uBlock origin could be a short term solution.

But we are working on adding built-in adblockers just like Brave + enhancing it to detect more ad formats using lightweight local LLM.

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mdaniel 335 days ago
> enhancing it to detect more ad formats using lightweight local LLM.

So you're going to boot up my_llm.prompt("is this request an ad? %s" % request.copy_as_curl()) for every XHR on the page?!

I know this comment is on a page about an AI web browser, but let's turn down the "LLMs cure all problems" a notch

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