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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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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A built-in ad blocker is better. Hopely Mozilla doesn't do something stupid with it.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm mostly worried they'll underutilize it! That would be unfortunate, but it would still be an improvement.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Well, unlike Brave, Firefox needs to not break legitimate webpages. If a webdev wants to support Firefox and it just doesn't display a (non-ad) element they've added, then they might not bother supporting Firefox after all.

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