I wonder if Brave's built in ad blocker will still function as normal? I keep coming back to Brave as things just work, but if it start becoming an ad riddled mess I totally go back to Firefox or a clone.
I'd say they are going to run off customers, but the number of people I know who just use the default browser or Chrome is mind boggling. All the people who don't want ads will just leave.
I wonder if Brave's built in ad blocker will still function as normal?
It should, yeah. Brave maintains its own version of UBO and a few other MV2 extensions because the users want them, but they say the built in blocker is a perfectly viable replacement for those extensions. I've always used UBO on top of the built in blocker so I'm not in a position evaluate that claim, but I've been less than impressed at how the two interact. Breakages are hard to diagnose and simply disabling the built in blocker doesn't really help. It also just feels less clean and smooth than letting UBO do all the work. Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise for me. I know UBO's developer said the extension works best with Firefox anyway.
At the very least I haven't run any extra blockers on Brave like I do on other browsers, and that plus DNS level ad blocking, I pretty much never see advertisements. So theirs is at least effective.
I wonder if Brave's built in ad blocker will still function as normal? I keep coming back to Brave as things just work, but if it start becoming an ad riddled mess I totally go back to Firefox or a clone.
I'd say they are going to run off customers, but the number of people I know who just use the default browser or Chrome is mind boggling. All the people who don't want ads will just leave.
It should, yeah. Brave maintains its own version of UBO and a few other MV2 extensions because the users want them, but they say the built in blocker is a perfectly viable replacement for those extensions. I've always used UBO on top of the built in blocker so I'm not in a position evaluate that claim, but I've been less than impressed at how the two interact. Breakages are hard to diagnose and simply disabling the built in blocker doesn't really help. It also just feels less clean and smooth than letting UBO do all the work. Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise for me. I know UBO's developer said the extension works best with Firefox anyway.
At the very least I haven't run any extra blockers on Brave like I do on other browsers, and that plus DNS level ad blocking, I pretty much never see advertisements. So theirs is at least effective.
I still haven't seen a single ad on Youtube and the worst I got was waiting 3 or 4 seconds for the video to start.