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Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine (thelemmy.club)
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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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[–] 4 points 4 months 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.

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