Comment by matheist
1 day ago
> We are also building an LLM-based ad-blocker after Chrome blocked uBlock Origin.
Since it's a Chromium fork, why not re-enable uBlock Origin instead?
1 day ago
> We are also building an LLM-based ad-blocker after Chrome blocked uBlock Origin.
Since it's a Chromium fork, why not re-enable uBlock Origin instead?
Chromium will remove the Manifest V2 APIs, and none of these forks want to maintain them. Brave also chose to have their own built-in adblocker.
The real question is, why not opt to fork Firefox who is doing that work for them.
+1, enabling uBlock origin could be a short term solution.
But we are working on adding built-in adblockers just like Brave + enhancing it to detect more ad formats using lightweight local LLM.
> enhancing it to detect more ad formats using lightweight local LLM.
So you're going to boot up my_llm.prompt("is this request an ad? %s" % request.copy_as_curl()) for every XHR on the page?!
I know this comment is on a page about an AI web browser, but let's turn down the "LLMs cure all problems" a notch