@Klaas Vaak
I’d say sure and no.
Courageous adblocker is nice, since final time I examined it it appears they lastly allow you to use all of the supported options in Customized filters, which is able to enhance issues. However Courageous remains to be removed from excellent, that’s why uBlock is required.
Sources and syntaxes and all, are uBlock primarily based, Courageous even forks uBlock.
Additionally, Courageous remains to be lacking few little options uBlock helps, I’m speaking about $popup for instance, which is necessary, but in addition it must be supported as a result of if a filter has $popup it will get fully ignored so that you don’t get to even block just like the area or one thing like Adguard MV3 does (Adguard MV3 appears to be lacking that however blocks the area).
There are additionally the procedural cosmetics however they aren’t necessary as a result of cosmetics all they do is conceal, they don’t block, which most individuals can’t appear to know. However procedural cosmetics are good to have and hopefully Courageous will assist them quickly.
I truly use uBlock however disabled generic filters and most lists, simply leaving uBlock in case one thing is just not supported or not correctly supported by Courageous.
The factor is whereas Courageous helps extra scriplets from uBlock, like I examined most they usually labored positive for the few assessments I might get, typically it’s actually onerous to seek out the proper web site to check them, and the testing pages ABP and uBlock and Courageous has aren’t sufficient for each function.
I truly examined Adguard MV3 and I noticed how folks actually discuss out of their butts, apart from the Guidelines restrict, Adguard helps most options Adguard MV2 does, it’s nonetheless lacking few ones however they even assist those not even uBlock does as a result of they’re ABP solely after which Adguard added assist for them.
In comparison with Vivaldi or Opera, Courageous is like the most effective native adblocker for positive, Vivaldi or Opera don’t even allow you to write customized filters and they’re actually behind uBlock/ABP/Adguard in phrases for options.
As a result of whereas most of the options are like not used in every single place, they’re helpful for a lot of issues.
for instance aopw is the one I got here up with first than anybody to cease this clipboard difficulty: https://www.ghacks.web/2022/08/27/websites-may-write-to-the-clipboard-in-chrome-without-user-permission/
I believe vivaldi helps that, however not the opposite most superior ones https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Sources-Library
And the checklist of ABP and Adguard is even higher and extra superior than that.
However anyway, it appears aopw wasn’t working as acustom filter in Courageous not too long ago however in some way now it does and I noticed Courageous including it to their lists.
I examined most issues even the $redirect, additionally not too long ago Courageous supported the $redirect-url and I believe it really works additionally in customized filters, I suppose since all the pieces else will get supported.
There was some extent after I was advised customized filters had been totally different than inside lists, in order that’s why customized filters couldn’t use all of the options however now they do, then they’re the most effective native adblocker, as a result of it was already superior however not being able so that you can make your individual guidelines is annoying.
Courageous is quicker and higher than Extension API for positive, and Courageous helps CNAME uncloaking making it the one Chromium browser to try this.
However Courageous is the place it’s due to uBlock and Adguard and ABP and the large guys, I imply, MV3 received’t cease innovation like folks assume, however devs certainly might want to discover workarounds for most of the superior options.
Courageous adblocker is just not excellent even when it helps the options although, typically it behaves not 100% like uBlock would, and there are some regex guidelines that fail as a result of Courageous doesn’t assist regex 100% like uBlock I suppose does.
However I imply, nothing Courageous workforce received’t enhance or repair ultimately.
uBlock logger is wonderful, and the component picker is basically helpful in contrast to Courageous’s one which I disable with –disable-brave-extension. I often use Devtools to create my beauty filters anyway, however uBlock makes it good to check issues.
In order that’s why I say sure and no, till Courageous doesn’t enhance adblocker much more and brings the ‘cool’ and ‘regular’ options, then there’ll at all times be the necessity of Adguard or uBlock to fill the hole.
I believe Adguard mv3 is nice, however clearly missed some options and has the foundations limits which is likely to be an issue for some individuals who subscribe to each checklist on the planet even when guidelines are duplicated or out of date and ineffective. I’m positive uBlock MV3 will at all times do properly, so it’s good gorhill lastly bringing one thing to the desk.
It’s the future anyway, in order that’s why it’s good uBlock and Adguard and others exist so Courageous can convey their improvements to the native adblocker.
However for now, Courageous remains to be not 100% there, I’d say like 90% there, then they will work on including different stuff uBlock has however are actually not used a lot simply in actually particular events like matches-css or xpath and stuff like that.
Additionally Courageous nonetheless will get detected in contrast to uBlock, so I at all times disable shields and I nonetheless get stuff blocked as a result of uBlock then does the job.
Courageous will actually do 98% of the job anyway, even when some ignorant folks say in any other case, and it’s in uncommon moments the place Courageous will brake a web page or one thing, typically it’s not even the Adblocker that brakes something however the fingerprinting safety or the 3p cookies being blocked (saved within the Ephemeral storage).
However I doubt folks actually know what they discuss, final time somebody was saying how Adguard MV3 was higher as a result of it does procedural cosmetics and the individual saved saying how Courageous can’t ‘block’ promoted tweets, which is dumb since cosmetics simply conceal and don’t block something, I’d say procedurals are used not often in comparison with the native browser css selectors, which at all times be really helpful.
One of the simplest ways can be for Google to cease being lazy and add at the least :has or :has-text to chromium. however I suppose it’ll at all times be the job of the adblockers to convey customized JS to do the job.
It’s getting there for 100% compatibility with uBlock filter checklist for positive however not there but.
