I didn't downvote you, but your vague mentioning of some browsers "that don't ever need extensions to block ads" is not helpful at all and sounds wrong to me. There are only three major browser engines in the world, and only Firefox's one blocks ads reliably.
Well, I dont see ads in my non-FF browser. Don't know what else I could say. And, to be precise, FF doesn't block anything by itself. It just relies on an the job of unpaid volunteers to block ads.
Your're just not giving enough details for a refute, so I had to dig links about all browsers I could find. You're trolling, since you only give vague, general statements, which don't move the discussion.
Almost nobody cares about anything other than ad blocking and to top it off the reply to the comment you linked is even mentioning that they were only talking about ad block...
You may be right, but I have no trust in Brave. Not just due to their shady decisions in the past but also because they would have to fight a huge ad industry on a tiny budget with their built-in ad blocker. At least if it's an add-on, the community would be able to help easier.
I think you don't understand the difference between an extension (for which manifest version matters) and an intrinsic feature (for which the manifest means nothing). It's either that, or you want to convince people that FF the only way. No, it isn't. Deal with it.
