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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 44 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They didn't include this in the release notes? What in the world is going on?

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    From what I saw in a waterfox thread, it's not enabled, has no lists added or setup and is clearly early-stage.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    It's still a bit odd to deploy dormant code to non-testors, isn't it? Mozilla can withhold a Nightly or Beta feature for as long as it feels like, regardless of how many versions are released as they develop it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    If there's no reason to hold the feature code back (i.e. its integration doesn't break anything), then it's much easier for development to ship the feature and disable it with a feature flag. Otherwise, you have two versions of the code, which means changes need to be integrated in both versions, which is largely just pointless busywork.

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