What will happen to Brave browser after the manifest change?
What will happen to Brave browser after the manifest change?
I've read some things online about it all but I'm not a total IT boff. Is it really true that Brave browser won't be able to block ads once the changes are made next year?
Ps. I use Firefox with uBlock but my SO and most of my clients absolutely love Brave
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Manifest V3 will not prevent Brave from blocking ads. We built ad blocking into the browser itself so it will not be affected by Google changing its rules for extensions.
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It is best to move to Firefox because fundamentally the chromium project thrives because of Google ,an Ad company. It is not worth using chromium derivatives.
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Out of interest, since Chromium is open source, is there anything stopping Opera, Edge, Brave, etc. just mantaining support for the old manifest? Like, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal for anything other than Chrome and Chromium.
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Because nearly 90% of users use Chrome or a derivative thereof. People can make a V3 version for Chrome and a V2 version for other browsers, but the APIs are nowhere near compatible, so it's a lot of extra work. If you just make a V3 version, it will work on any updated browser.
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When you do that you'd have to port every single security patch and new feature manually into your fork. And it gets even worse: Because you deviate from the original implementation you continue to use outdated code that nobody is patching at all.
So you can absolutely do that, but in a year you'll have your own browser with tons of security issues and no manpower to find and fix them.
Basically you'd be using an old browser version.
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