Noice. Hope it doesn't mean.they want to drop manifest v2 or something.
I said it for Waterfox and I'm gonna say it again for Firefox: this is good. At worst, it's just fine (Mozilla just uses it internally to replace or supplement its old and incomplete Tracker Blocking system, which never gets the same scrutiny).
The biggest difference between Firefox and Waterfox in implementation is the WaterFox developers noticed this FF change early, and committed to providing full-fledged ad blocking out of the box, which is great news for users.
A few more reasons this is good:
Rust is faster than JavaScript
isn't ublock's filtering compiled to webassembly?
Actual ad blocking is something Firefox users have been begging Mozilla to do
seems a bit dangerous though to risk for a browser with so small market share
isn't ublock's filtering compiled to webassembly?
From my unprofessional glance ar their repository, it uses a little, but not much. Take a look at their code; all or most of the filtering is done in JavaScript, the webassembly appears to be just ~~one~~ two modules. (It's in the "wasm" folder near the top of the list).
(Edit: I was looking at outdated code; the newer version uses more, but IMO pales in comparison to the JavaScript filtering logic)
seems a bit dangerous though to risk for a browser with so small market share
Waterfox has a much smaller market share and much smaller budget, and was able to clear this with search partners just by promising not to block ads on them by default.
A built-in ad blocker is easily the least problematic announcement coming out of Mozilla in the last year.
As long as it doesn't interfere with Ublock Origin I guess that's fine.
"Quietly™" by posting about it beforehand everywhere they could.
Cool.
Still sticking with uBlock and SponsorBlock (skips all the "this video was sponsored by" segments on YouTube).
Though there are a few creators that do such good ad segments that even those are worth watching. Map Men, Aging Wheels, and lazerpig all come to mind.
With lazerpig, it's often hard to tell the difference between the subject matter and the commercial......
Add DeArrow in there as well (anti-clickbait)
I'd love to be able to use it but it completely grinds the website to a halt with large playlists and the creator doesn't wanna fix it
Of course they just had to make it somewhat contreversial by adopting braves adblock engine; brave's ceo or whatever funds anti gay lobbyists.
Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.
Quietly
The developer made this change from a personal laptop at their local public library.
Shhhhhh.
As someone whose employer blocks the installation of browser extensions, I am more than excited to hear that!
Using the web sucks since that policy has been implemented a year or so ago.
Integrated adblock engine would rectify that again.
That's cool, take the good part of Brave, leave behind the villainous CEO and dodgy crypto scams
They didn't include this in the release notes? What in the world is going on?
a default-disabled prototype
No wonder it didn't show up in normal/enduser release notes.
This article suggests you have to disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection to test it. Does it replace that entire system with an equivalent system?
I'll wait until it's stable and productive.
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