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Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine (lemmy.ml)
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Full article: Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

After seeing a lot of backlash over Waterfox adding Brave's adblock engine:

It looks like Waterfox is piggy-backing off of Firefox’s implementation (great!).

And it's been there for a little while.

Mozilla bundled adblock-rust (Brave’s Rust-based adblock engine, the same one my team works on) into Firefox. Pretty exciting to see them finally start taking ad & tracker blocking seriously; I didn’t think I’d see this day. It landed in Firefox 149 via via Bugzilla Bug 2013888.

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[–] Matth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What's the difference with ublock and why not contact ublock developer to propose to integrate it instead of what did Brave? Article don't mention what is better with adblock rust! :-/

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ublock is way better than that brave crap. As long as they don't start moving towards Manifest 3.0 "because we have builtin adblock now" :( I wouldn't put it past Mozilla because they've really been cozying up to the ad industry. With anonym, the "privacy-preserving attribution" BS, stuff like that.

[–] peskypry@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Firefox already supports Manifest V3. It's just that they retained critical V2 APIs required for adblocking in V3 too.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Agreed, uBo is the superior solution since it is not only an ad blocker. It is so much more.