my uBO on chrome doesn’t works anymore so i’m full ditching from chrome on to brave, for now both uBO and brave default adblocker still works on brave but i curious, will brave also shutdown their adblocker in the future? because yeah, brave was nothing but chromium
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@Davidhench there’s an official page about this.
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thanks, i didn’t know that
But, how long Brave will maintain this as Chromium 140 already kicked MV2 to the curb?
Actually, I’m fine with Brave Shield, no need uBO anymore, but I still needs MV2 for 2 importants must-have extentions: IDM & ClearURLs. Those are very important extentions that I must have to make my jobs easier. So?
@dianasusanti did you not read the reply and the link provided for the solution? Because the answer is there.
I have read that article, and I understand much. And I know Brave is planning to keep patching Manifest V2 support, even as Chromium upstream (with its lovely Tracking Protection Crusade) continues stripping out MV2 dependencies. But realistically—how long can I actually rely on Brave to keep this up? Starting with version 140, Chromium seems more serious than ever about killing off MV2 for good. Who knows what versions 141, 145, 150, or 160 will bring—each one could be the final nail.
I’m not worried about uBlock Origin, since Brave Shields already do a great job keeping the web usable. What really concerns me is the impact MV2 deprecation will have on my must-have extension: Internet Download Manager (IDM).
I reached out to Tonec, and they said they’re trying to move to MV3, but they’re not confident it’ll actually work as well.
I’ve also been digging through Brave’s GitHub repo, and so far, it looks like they’re just suppressing the MV2 warning flags. Honestly, it’s not super reassuring—but I’m holding out hope that they’ll manage to patch MV2 support back in somehow.
My goal here is to understand what the long-term situation looks like—so I know when it’ll be time to jump ship.
@dianasusanti just read in the past? Because key part is the update part on the article that exists now. Which says you’re SOL for the things you’re wanting.
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. Users can download and enable these 4 extensions from the
brave://settings/extensions/v2page.When Google removes MV2 extensions from Chrome Web Store, they will be disabled for Brave users as well, except for these 4 supported extensions. This is to prevent users from using out-of-date extensions which might have serious security ramifications, as mentioned in the blog.
Big thing on long-term is to continue those 4 extensions as long as they can, but it’s best effort between the app developers and Brave. All others are gone.
They claim they will be making it MV3. Have you seen https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/chrome-extension-manifest3.html? I haven’t done a deep dive to make sure it’s the legitimate website associated, but if it is, they say they have the MV3 version available for testing now.
I’d say for the long-term you should reach out to the people making the extensions. Or I suppose might be jumping to Firefox.
To quote from the link above (but I’ll not provide a link to their extension)
We will release update for our extension in the future when Chrome stops support Manifest 2 completely.
Currently we have test version for extension for Manifest 3. You can try it here:
You know brave is pretty great on making a better web. I should hope they have plans and ways to diverge from chromium when needed. Like how they have select MV2 extensions built into brave now. They need to do their own thing when needed (even if it requires more development)