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Still chromium based

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Why does that matter? Ad blocking isn't an extension in Brave.

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They are dependent on google making their browser easily facilitate ad blocking. They don't know how to actually do browser dev

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https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

They're doing their own v2 support and the built-in adblocker is completely unaffected.

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Google can make it tough to use extensions to block ads, but it's quite a different feat to make it difficult when you can customize the actual code.

To make it hard in Brave, Google has to not only remove Manifest V2 but also the internal methods V2 used -- and then finally make further alternatives hard to implement. I'm not even sure how that could happen while maintaining support for DOM manipulation APIs exposed to JS code.

Modern ad blockers essentially require the same access as JS (actually a lot less), just enabled for all sites.

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