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mthoms · 2019-09-21 18:12:15

Here here. Even though they use the same browser engine as Chrome, the Brave team have chosen not to include the blocker limitation introduced by Google[0].

[0]https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

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insickness | karma 2766 | avg karma 3.75 · | 2023-11-23 20:32:44

Since Brave is Chrome-based, won't it be affected by Chrome's limitations on ad-blockers?

behnamoh | karma 20551 | avg karma 4.64 · | 2020-06-17 16:32:00+00:00

But even Brave doesn't block some google ads.

favadi | karma 266 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2018-12-04 23:58:38+00:00

I've just notice that Brave doesn't block ads in search engine.

hgyjnbdet | karma 267 | avg karma 2.07 · | 2024-05-31 14:15:12

Why would you even use brave? You want to view advertisements just use Chrome. If you don't there's Firefox and ublock origin.

justsee | karma 1488 | avg karma 4.94 · | 2019-05-30 00:46:53+00:00

Chrome restricting extension APIs won't affect Brave's ad-blocking.

See: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1133878509342846977

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wutbrodo | karma 8616 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2019-01-05 20:06:26+00:00

If you don't have any ethical objections to adblocking, the Brave browser supports Chrome extensions.

wmitty | karma 398 | avg karma 23.41 · | 2021-06-18 08:09:16

> Their adblocker is just a fork of uBlock Origin,

This does not appear to be true. Here is the github repo for their open source adblock engine written in rust:

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

Here is a (somewhat dated) article describing it by the authors:

https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

> Google will take decisions that benefit their advertisement business, like making impossible to use adblockers on any Chromium based browser.

Because the brave adblocker is integrated directly into the browser (ie. not an extension) the Manifest V3 limitations don't apply.

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soundnote | karma 649 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2022-06-16 09:19:41

Brave's adblocker is not an extension so it doesn't care. It also doesn't care about the Chromium API limitations snd does CNAME uncloaking like uBO on Firefox.

skinnymuch | karma 2879 | avg karma 0.75 · | 2020-08-11 02:51:55

No other reason for Brave? Some don’t want to or care for blocking ads and others don’t do it at the browser level. Does Brave have anything at that point?

gojomo | karma 29822 | avg karma 3.73 · | 2017-10-13 21:37:49

I didn't see the ad-blocker-blocker loading this URL in Brave. Also, often blocking both ads & JS for a site blocks the ad-blocker-blocker.

yagizdegirmenci | karma 1809 | avg karma 8.45 · | 2022-02-14 02:32:31

Brave's ad-blocker is not an extension, it is natively implemented, so the Brave will stay unaffected.

istjohn | karma 2944 | avg karma 3.22 · | 2020-06-06 23:31:51

No, but Brave has adblocking built in.

Eisenstein | karma 3878 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2023-02-23 19:09:40

Brave browser is literally built to block ads.

NayamAmarshe | karma 2303 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2024-05-31 14:02:03

Brave does not block native ads (except for Google’s) on any website. All third party embedded ads are blocked by default.

kitsunesoba | karma 9481 | avg karma 3.37 · | 2021-02-18 15:09:37

The linked blog post doesn’t state it explicitly, but I suspect that the non-Brave browsers were not equipped with any kind of adblocking for the test. Brave has built in adblocking, so if my suspicions are true the test is rather disingenuous. At minimum Firefox and Chrome should have uBlock Origin installed and Safari should have Wipr or 1blocker installed to make it fair.

TheArcane | karma 673 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2019-06-24 00:49:49+00:00

You have a mobile browser without an ad blocker? Brave

atomical | karma 2465 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2019-04-25 00:02:58

Brave doesn't block those ads.

AgentME | karma 4810 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2019-11-13 20:04:58+00:00

If you don't opt into seeing ads, then Brave is a browser with ad-blocking built in (and a donate-to-sites-you-use button).

alwillis | karma 7547 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2019-11-14 02:14:21+00:00

I don't really see why I should use Brave over something like Firefox with uBlock Origin.

Because ad blockers are just add-ons, they can be circumvented. Also, many ad blockers allow advertisers to pay them to allow their ads to get through: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G3lu90...

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