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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.449s | source
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raydenvm ◴[13 Jul 25 07:07 UTC] No.44548145[source]▶
I suppose that switching to Brave will be one of the best solutions after all. They have already comment this in June: https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3
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moffkalast ◴[13 Jul 25 11:27 UTC] No.44549491[source]▶
What makes Brave trustworthy enough for us to run our entire life through it? For me it's irreparably forever tainted by crypto grifting.
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esskay ◴[13 Jul 25 15:29 UTC] No.44551098[source]▶
The 'crypto grifting' is something you can turn off completely, it's there as a way to make the browser sustainable without accepting payments from Google to make it the default search engine.

I'd argue its far more trustworthy than modern day Firefox/Mozilla, they're not exactly the second coming these days.

What makes Firefox more trustworthy?

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1. moffkalast ◴[13 Jul 25 17:35 UTC] No.44552019[source]▶
That's kind of like saying "yeah this is a mafia pizzeria but you can come eat at hours when the goons aren't there". Besides, why does Brave need that much funding? All they make is a Chromium wrapper, Google does all the work for them. They're not really an actual alternative in that sense, they just stuff it full of adblock, crypto, and god knows what. There was even a thing recently where it autoinstalled a VPN.

Yeah it's true that Mozilla's mostly financed from Google's anti-antitrust payments, but at least they actually made something of their own and have a trustworthy track record three decades long as a non-profit and Netscape before that.

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2. esskay ◴[15 Jul 25 11:47 UTC] No.44570158[source]▶
> and god knows what

That right there sours your whole argument. Your entire reasoning here is based on "they're probably doing something dodgy", ignoring the bit about it being opensource, or that Firefox and Chrome are at the very minimum on equal terms of "dodgyness", as you'll no doubt already know.