We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the …

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    5 months ago

    nope, it’s made from scratch in rust

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      5 months ago

      You’re right, I found it here. I thought it was based on uBlock because there’s a UI somewhere in Brave for ad blocking that is suspiciously close to uBlock’s UI for blocking specific elements on a site.

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        5 months ago

        there’s also a phyton library that lets you use brave’s adblocker on other browsers like qutebrowser

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      oh, thx for saying. i also thought it was based on ublock, though im not sure where i got that information from