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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
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this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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Firefox supports DNS over HTTPS. Enabling it will bypass the operating systems DNS. You can set a custom server that has ad blocking.
If they locked down extensions, it's highly likely they also locked down modifying the DNS settings.