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Both Brave & Opera have built in adblockers that are not dependent on Manifest to run. I haven't played with Opera too much, but Brave lets you add custom lists and works quite well. Combine that with a DNS based adblocker such as HaGeZi [1] or OISD from free DNS providers like ControlD or NextDNS and you'll be golden.

[1] https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#...

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I'm using Brave and have no idea why you got downvoted. People are talking like Chrome and FF are the only two things on Earth.

The silent downvote curse spreads.

Can someone kindly speak up and explain?

What's wrong with talking about Brave?

I downvote comments that disregard the hn guidelines.

“Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”

They don't like the politics of Brenden Eich.

As Lenin would say, "Who? Whom?"

Yeah plus Brave on iPhone auto blocks ads. No extensions or configuration needed. Not sure if Firefox does that.

No, and it shouldn't. Firefox is a general purpose browser, so it should display web pages as the author intends. Security/anti-malware is expected, but changes in content are outside its scope. That's what extensions are for.

If you're installing Brave or Opera, you're not interested in a general purpose browser. Adblock is part of their advertised feature set.

Technically, software for browsing the internet without Adblock is not general purpose. I would consider it to be shopping software.

My point is, this is a No True Scotsman fallacy.

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