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Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine (media.piefed.social)
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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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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Can we really trust mozilla to be in charge of adblocking? It's not like users have any power over firefox's source code if mozilla decides that google ads are okay, for instance. I think it would be a bad idea to prematurely kill ublock origin and assume we'll never need a community-supported adblocker again.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Haha, I don't think anyone's talking about killing uBO, and I'm fairly sure gorhill wouldn't do that, unless he grew tired of maintaining it.

    (They could remove the APIs it uses, like Chromium did to some extent, but Mozilla has publicly committed to not doing that.)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I'm a bit late to answer but I certainly don't trust them after all the crap they created.

    In the end, the developer of uBlock Origin may be bored, stop developing, and we'll have to rely on Mozilla while losing all the knowledge that uBlock Origin brought. It's always bad in a professional environment, it will be bad for any open-source project.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Can we really trust mozilla to be in charge of adblocking? It’s not like users have any power over firefox’s source code if mozilla decides that google ads are okay, for instance.

    Just add custom filter lists. Never understood the outcry back when people used AdGuard and an optional whitelist was on by default.

    If you can install a 3rd party web browser, you can change filter rules as well.

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