Funny that I just noticed this here, right after I posted my own thoughts on the matter: https://lemmy.ml/post/308999
TLDR: Mv3’s declarativeNetRequest is a really good replacement for a subset of uBlock Origin’s functionality. If it didn’t herald an end to privileged extensions then I’d welcome it. But Google gotta Google; can’t take one step forward without two steps back.
There are some valid reasons to use Blink; for those use-cases, I’d love to see a “de-Braved-Brave” fork of Brave that removes all the “cryptography-verified, decentralized pyramid scheme” nonsense but keeps the great content blocking.
I don’t trust anything from Brave; whole thing seems like a MLM to me.
Second best option (after a revolution that eliminates google, I can only dream) is that a large enough org decides to write a different rendering engine so google doesn’t have a monopoly.
I agree about Brave which is why I said I’d like to see a fork that removes all the cryptocurrency nonsense.
I think that among the indie crowd (not large orgs/corps) the best we can do is test our sites in other non-mainstream engines and stick to standards. The SerenityOS browser, Servo, and NetSurf are cirrently maintained; there’s also KHTML, Hv3, etc. Supporting one or two fully independent options in addition to the big three could go a long way.
Funny that I just noticed this here, right after I posted my own thoughts on the matter: https://lemmy.ml/post/308999
TLDR: Mv3’s
declarativeNetRequestis a really good replacement for a subset of uBlock Origin’s functionality. If it didn’t herald an end to privileged extensions then I’d welcome it. But Google gotta Google; can’t take one step forward without two steps back.There are some valid reasons to use Blink; for those use-cases, I’d love to see a “de-Braved-Brave” fork of Brave that removes all the “cryptography-verified, decentralized pyramid scheme” nonsense but keeps the great content blocking.
I don’t trust anything from Brave; whole thing seems like a MLM to me.
Second best option (after a revolution that eliminates google, I can only dream) is that a large enough org decides to write a different rendering engine so google doesn’t have a monopoly.
I agree about Brave which is why I said I’d like to see a fork that removes all the cryptocurrency nonsense.
I think that among the indie crowd (not large orgs/corps) the best we can do is test our sites in other non-mainstream engines and stick to standards. The SerenityOS browser, Servo, and NetSurf are cirrently maintained; there’s also KHTML, Hv3, etc. Supporting one or two fully independent options in addition to the big three could go a long way.
Hv3 was weird, couldn’t understand how to make it work