It is similar to the excuse given by Mozilla to reject bundling ublock origin, “but false positives bad for you !”, when blocking ads would still do far more good than bad for the users, and if they really cared about this problem they could very easily contribute to the unbreaking effort in the community lists. Besides, if community lists can accept that alleged load of “countless support issues” for free (like ublock origin filters, and easylist filter lists before they sold out to Brave), why could not those lists under corporate control with lots of money ? Ublock origin developed by one person as a hobby without even accepting donations -> proactively pro-user nuisance blocking (alas with the only exception of Mozilla ads, of which the removal was denied).Īs for the “Brave did it partly for us, not just for themselves” argument of linuxfan, no, if a user is advanced enough to add filters himself, it’s his responsability to be able to unbreak false positives by disabling what he added, depriving all users of this freedom just because of this “risk” is anti-user and a rationalization for badly motivated corporate behavior. The same rule applies to all browsers with such malware deals to make money (hello Mozilla !). Instead of bundling ublock origin without this costing them any bucks, they spent money to make a version where users are denied the freedom to add the filters that they choose, and with various other handicaps.īathing in Google and other ad and surveillance money sources to pay developers -> castrated nuisance blocking like above (or none at all). “But the add-on does more than that and supports custom lists, filters, and elements, so you may want to keep it anyway. Make sure that Brave Shield is enabled for the site, click on the icon next to the address bar, and also check if the first drop-down menu says "Trackers and ads blocked" (and not set to "Allow all trackers and ads"). Hey, I still see the social buttons on a website. If you don't have the new ad-blocking filter lists in your browser, check whether you have the latest version.
This reddit thread says that the lists appeared in Brave Nightly 1.20.19, but according to a new post these options were added to the stable release channel in version 1.19.92. You don't have to do this since the add-on does a great job out of the box, but the options are there if you want to enable them.Īn issue filed on Brave's GitHub regarding support for the new filter lists was fulfilled in early December. Tip: Firefox, Edge (and other Chromium-based browsers) users can enable these annoyance lists from uBlock Origin's dashboard > filter lists. But the add-on does more than that and supports custom lists, filters, and elements, so you may want to keep it anyway. Technically, if you were using uBlock Origin specifically for these lists, you no longer need the extension.
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