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> 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?
by matheist 1y 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?
- Daedren 1y agoChromium 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.
- felarof 1y ago+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.
- mdaniel 1y ago> 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