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Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I believe Brave’s ad blocker is based on uBlock.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

nope, it's made from scratch in rust

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

You're right, I found it here. I thought it was based on uBlock because there's a UI somewhere in Brave for ad blocking that is suspiciously close to uBlock's UI for blocking specific elements on a site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

there's also a phyton library that lets you use brave's adblocker on other browsers like qutebrowser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

oh, thx for saying. i also thought it was based on ublock, though im not sure where i got that information from