On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I ended up installing Brave. Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will
eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock
Origin (even though it's supported right now). But it has its own
built-in ad blocking*by default*, so you don't actually*need* uBlock
Origin to have a satisfactory environment.
Many of my friends keep recommending Brave, but I cannot get past the
fact that their business model is to strip ads from sites and insert
their own ads instead (if the user opts-in to them). It is one thing to
provide a free, open source, community-maintained ad blocker, it is
another thing altogether to make it your business model to replace
someone else's ads with your own. I cannot fathom how this could be
considered ethical at all.
The browser might provide a good user experience but their business
model is *slimy as hell* and I cannot in good conscience support them in
any way.
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