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Given that Brave is chrome-based, and Brave won't stand for ad-blockers being disabled, I wonder what they're planning.

I do find uBlock Origin to be better than Brave's built-in blocker.

I expect they'll adopt Manifest v3, and it'll mean the end of UBo, but they'll still have their own built in adblocker working. They'll just need to maintain that and where it fits in with the Chrome codebase.

On Twitter they claimed they are still supporting v2.

https://x.com/brave/status/1822690721020723700

Is it not in their own interest to be the only ad blocker?

I'm not sure why it would be in their own interest to be the only ad blocker. What do they gain by not allowing other ad blockers?

It elevates them into the "main protagonist", and I'm not necessarily against that, I just don't want ads shoved down my throat.

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