God, it's not hard to read an article instead of speculate in the comments.

"The new built in blocker will use Brave’s adblock library and run in Waterfox’s main browser process rather than as an extension. Kontos says this should make adblocking faster, more tightly integrated, and less dependent on extension APIs or constant upstream updates."

He also said Brave’s library was chosen partly because its MPL 2.0 license is a better fit for Waterfox, while deeper integration with a blocker like uBlock Origin would be more complicated because of its GPLv3 license.

Waterfox will still make one exception by default by allowing text ads on its default search partner page, currently Startpage, as a way to support the browser financially. The team clarified that this is Waterfox’s own revenue decision and not something inherited from Brave’s adblocking technology. Users who want stricter blocking will be able to disable all ads with a single setting, while people who already use third party blockers can keep using them as usual.

This, to me, is fine, because I change the default regardless. There's nothing stopping anyone else from doing the same. Sure, this could potentially open the door for additional "greedy" decisions down the road, but let's not jump to conclusions.

I miss when people made web browsers without appeasing advertisers. Remember when mozilla introduced the popup blocker and netscape actually incorporated that into their mainstream product? You never see stuff like that anymore because advertisers control everything on the internet now.

I'm glad I stuck with Librewolf.

I don't quite understand the concerns in the comments here. The original blog post seems reasonable: https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/#what-waterfox-is-in-2026

What does this mean? Waterfox turning into Brave-like browser, which is Chromium, but for Mozilla forks?

I'm not sure if I like this. I hope it can be configured in about:settings.

FFS I switched last week

That's bad

Haha, Im here for people flipping out comments :)

toss

Next!

https://youtu.be/9h9wStdPkQY

So long waterfox! Get fucked!

damn this is unfortunate. i liked waterfox too.

Goddamn Google craming ads everywhere, switched from Firefox to Waterfox after 20 years... guess it's time to take the ol' fox out back and put it out of it's misery and switch to Librewolf.

Fuck Brave

1. Brave uses scammy cryptocurrency / ad schemes to monetize you, the user.

2. Personalized ads fingerprint and identify you, the user.

3. The founder/CEO Brandon Eich supports the American regime, and is anti-lgbtq. Plus the guy created JavaScript, so fuck him.

Quality open source software without borders will always be better than nationalist software.

Boycott American companies, but don't fall into the same trap with European ones.

Try librewolf

The comments here really put into perspective how many people don't actually read the articles linked.

They're using the open source ad block library from brave, largely because of licensing, but keeping text search ads for the default search engine (Start page) enabled because that is part of how Waterfox makes money.

It's just an integrated adblocker.. It's not enabled for anyone using an ad blocker already and for new users.. you can shut it off and still use uBlock Origin instead.

I've been using Ironfox on my phone for a few months and it's was a pretty easy transition from Firefox.

Wow what a shocker given who owns Waterfox and them saying they wouldn't interfere, just trust them!

Bye bye Waterfox!