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Wtf, simply not true:

Brave: chrome://flags/#brave-extensions-manifest-v2 > brave://settings/extensions/v2 > Enable uBlock Origin (Brave-hosted, even better).

Helium comes with uBlock Origin pre-installed.

Edge even still has it https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-ori...

And I'm sure others ...I personally only use/test Brave, Brave Origin, Helium and Firefox.

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Edge is dropping support. Helium is not a major browser.

Brave is the only one that might be considered a valid point. However, because of Chromium dropping support they've had to implement a custom bypass to support Manifest v2 and they are also hosting a version of uBlock Origin for Chromium on their own servers.

It's really questionable how long this state of affairs can go on for. Brave has said they will support it "as long as they are able" but Google could easily just remove the `webRequest` API from Chromium or the engineering burden to keep it alive might just get to be too much

Unfortunately, I think it has an expiration date on any Chromium-based browser.

Agree on the last part, let’s see for how long.. but for now it’s simply not true.

Edge will lose it within the next few months: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/08/07/moving-the-mi...

RIP corporate users that can't install their own browsers but can install extensions

Ahh so this will be what moves me off of Edge. Microsoft has almost entirely pushed me out of their ecosystem at this point.

The title says "major browser", which none of those are.

Brave surely is a major browser with 100+M MAU, not too distant from Firefox with 150+M MAU.

Brave blocks those ads anyway so no point in Ublock, maybe that's why it's left out. It does inject it's own ads though, and then there's all the crypto nonsense.

Ads on Brave are opt-in (and not embedded on webpages anyway) and the "crypto nonsense" is a way for them to try to stay afloat without having to accept money from Google and the likes.

They are opt-out, not opt-in. Big difference.

Opt-in. Someone else linked Brave's blog below. Read it.

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H...

That only hides them, this disables them: https://rentry.co/browserconfigs

Have you ever actually used Brave? Because then you would have noticed the huge glowing opt-out billboard of a new tab page.

It's my primary browser since a few years. If you are talking about sponsored backgrounds, good luck finding any "major" browser that doesn't have something sponsored on it (opt-out).

Let's hear it then because I'm using Brave and don't see the opt-out.

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H...

and simply dont use their homepage as your new tab page

Cheers!

Brave adblocking breaks some websites that uBlock Origin doesn't.

Lately I’ve had better luck with Brave than with FF and UBO, at least one my various banking sites.

Technically Firefox isn't a major browser either.

Firefox is less popular than some of the browsers you listed as not major, so it isn't major either

Well, Edge probably counts. I agree about the others.

Edge is a major browser but is dropping support

I use Vivaldi and I recently installed an update that disabled my v2 extensions. Had to downgrade and disable update checking.

Latest Vivaldi on Linux (8.1.4087.66, Chromium 150). uBlock Origin works.

Opera also claims they are committed to support manifest V2 forever.

....until then when big money starts knocking.

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