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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
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[–] 27 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Huh, right after Waterfox started to implement it themselves. Must have spooked Mozilla. I don't see how using Brave's adblock engine is all that different from uBlock Origin though since they both just enforce DNS lists, right? Could be wrong, I know nothing about how adblocking works on the backend, lol

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    DNS lists?
    Fuck no brother (or sister or non-binary sibling)

    Anyway. You can go as far as modifying the HTML page by overriding CSS rules.
    Overrode the font on a page I am using at work because the vendor is apparantly not using their own product and the font is fucking tiny in some places.
    You can override elements, dynamically remove with a selector wildcard, DNS blocks or subscribe to blocklists that can do all of it.

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

    Just for clarification, but do you mean you can automate that stuff? Because FF already has debug tools built in that lets you edit the HTML or CSS of the page however you want, but it's only for the current session. I'd occasionally use that before realizing I could just use reader mode for sites that did client side html5 bs for access control. Just go in and delete nodes using the picker tool. Until the annoying thing is gone.

    I've never really played around with ublock's capabilities, though did know that it must have been more sophisticated than just dns lists to stay in the arms race vs youtube (as well as why google was pushing "security features" that would kill it).

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Just for clarification, but do you mean you can automate that stuff?

    Yes.

    uBlock at its core is really just a scripting system for replacing CSS content using certain rules.

    The most common usage is to remove content you don't like, but really it can manipulate things in a zillion different ways, many of the more advanced features are only available to the user and not larger block lists for security reasons.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    Firefox actually started developing it first, and Waterfox caught on and decided to piggyback off of it in a relatively small announcement at the bottom of a retrospective. The Waterfox announcement just got reported on first.

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