"uBO does more by default, and has more knobs for its users, than Brave shields has or will likely ever have.
I've also committed to supporting uMatrix on Brave. We don't plan to build its functionality in. But we do support good extensions that require V2.
Browsers should not break such extensions with the only recourse being some browsers trying to absorb all the good (for their users, opinions vary) things those extensions do into their built-in features and options. I'm sure we agree on the first "should": Google shouldn't break V2, but I wanted to put out the second as a normative statement.
We (I was there) pioneered add-ons in Firefox for several reasons: to declutter built-in UX and underlying code; to encourage green-field extension development, to go beyond what we could do as a small team; to foster a new tier of innovation between browser and website. Harvesting best ideas back into baseline always an option but never a requirement.
I'm of same mind now running Brave as I was running tech side of Firefox: we want good extensions to endure and prosper. HTH"
📜 30/09/2026 · « L'enfer, c'est les autres. » — Sartre
