So... no news

Yeah, I hate it bcs it's just an intentional scam - and since the title is such an easy lie then prob everything is.

Much fox,
very lion.

Rust is faster than JavaScript

isn't ublock's filtering compiled to webassembly?

The slow thing usually is the DOM manipulation anyways.

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.

seems a bit dangerous though to risk for a browser with so small market share

They should have built it in years ago, but called it "web security filtering" or something and included only a basic security blocklist, but left it easy to add other lists.

especially using a brave adblocker, which i noticed doesnt block most ads, and likely whitelists some of them.

My faith in Mozilla has dimmed a whole lot over the past few years, but if they feel like making Firefox worse, I don't think they need to do it this way. More code does mean more vulnerabilities, but that hasn't stopped them from adding a half dozen other features that could have been extensions. This one could actually be beneficial, as it would cut down on the performance requirements for users, especially mobile ones.

Using entirely unrelated ad blocking technology is bad for what reason?

You can feel free to moralize, but be consistent: Mozilla bought an NFT company to integrate their code into Firefox, and that's not the only skeleton in their closet.

Why?

I use Linux. This means everyday I use software developed by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, the US military and the NSA.

It doesn't really matter who developed or contributed so much as who benefits.

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

Freetube has integrated sponsor block (might have to enable it in the settings first). I've generally been very happy with the Freetube flatpak, although there have been times when YouTube actively fought against third parties where Freetube did not work for a month.

Doesn't work with really new videos, but it helps.

With lazerpig, it's often hard to tell the difference between the subject matter and the commercial......

SponsorBlock skips past the video segments which contain sponsored advertisement. There's no overlap with what uBlock does.

Maybe not in Canada but every library in Asia has