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0 pointsScokee1y ago0 comments

Why do you think this would happen? Brave incorporates ublock as part of their Rust based adblocking library https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

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josephcsible1y ago· 3 in thread

Because eventually there will be enough changes to the upstream Chromium codebase that the only way to keep these extensions working would be to stop following upstream, which would mean massively increased development costs.

porridgeraisin1y ago

But they don't do adblocking with ublock, so it'll be safe

joecot1y ago

Chrome is going to continue supporting v2 extensions for enterprise users, so presumably it'll be pretty trivial to keep support for everyone else.

josephcsible1y ago

Google says that's only going to last one additional year, not forever.

gertop1y ago

They don't use ublock.

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