What Manifest V3 Means for Brave Shields and the Use of Extensions in Brave

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

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ggm•6mo ago

> While Brave will continue to offer limited support for MV2 extensions, the real solution is to use Brave’s industry-leading, native features. All are available by simply downloading the Brave browser.

Look I get it. This is all they can say. But it's frankly disingenuous. What about the browser extensions they don't and probably never will incorporate, like the tools to use archive sites?

It's reductive to "only run the things we wrote directly"

Dylan16807•6mo ago

Does that need v2? My impression was the list of things missing in v3 was not very long, it's just that altering requests was an important one.

greatgib•6mo ago

This shows how much Brave pretends to be an independant browser but is basically just chrome. Looking at how hard it is to just preserve the features that are requested by users.

crop_rotation•6mo ago

That's a very uncharitable way to look at things. Brave obviously doesn't have enough resources to fork chromium (even the multi trillion dollar M$FT didn't have and had to fork Chromium), but they definitely provide the best mobile browser by far.

ajdude•6mo ago

When I used Firefox on android it ran fine for me and supported ublock origin. Now I use Orion on iOS and it even supports sponsorblock on YouTube.

I consider every browser using chromium as a backend -- especially those that started with another backend and then switch to chromium -- as a traitor to the Internet.

They have no standing especially if they purport to care about things like privacy.

frizlab•6mo ago

Well said. I would upvote twice if I could.

Sabinus•6mo ago

To me, there is very little wisdom in using a piece of software designed by an internet advertising company to browse the internet. The incentives are just too perverse.

theultdev•6mo ago

Adblocking is built in. That's really all I care about as a brave user.

rs186•6mo ago

Eh, when did Brave "pretend" to be an independent browser?

eviks•6mo ago

Will any other "just Chrome"allow you to run the full UBO post mv2 removal?

> Update: As of v1.81, we host the following Manifest V2 (MV2) extensions on Brave’s backend: AdGuard, uBO, uMatrix, NoScript. These extensions operate independently from the equivalent versions that are currently present on the Chrome Web Store, and have to be downloaded separately

lousken•6mo ago

it would be nice if they joined other chromium forks in the battle and created a v2 store

catlikesshrimp•6mo ago

Don't panic until the last Firefox ESR to support MV2 expires.

You can panic then, powerusers.

5-•6mo ago

firefox continues to support mv2 alongside mv3 and has no plans to the contrary as far as i know.

ls612•6mo ago

I think that the concern is more that without Google money Mozilla likely goes bankrupt and Firefox development ends.

zackify•6mo ago

It's such a pain when you want to do something that is easily possible but manifest v3 won't allow it... like having an internal extension that references remote content...

DavideNL•6mo ago

> "Users can download and enable these 4 extensions from the brave://settings/extensions/v2 page."

Does that mean existing uBlock Origin users should re-download the extension ? Confusing instructions...

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