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.
That's a good thing.
Brave's native adblock is the best.
Huh, right after Waterfox started to implement it themselves. Must have spooked Mozilla. I don't see how using Brave's adblock engine is all that different from uBlock Origin though since they both just enforce DNS lists, right? Could be wrong, I know nothing about how adblocking works on the backend, lol
Firefox actually started developing it first, and Waterfox caught on and decided to piggyback off of it in a relatively small announcement at the bottom of a retrospective. The Waterfox announcement just got reported on first.
As long as it doesn't interfere with Ublock Origin I guess that's fine.
It's not enabled by default.
This can be the main reason:
Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox
What is the progress of Servo and Ladybird?
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.
Rust is faster than JavaScript
isn't ublock's filtering compiled to webassembly?
The slow thing usually is the DOM manipulation anyways.
"Quietly™" by posting about it beforehand everywhere they could.
Its become quite a trend with headlines, huh? I guess it implies "we're airing some dirty laundry, come look!" With the hopes of boosting click-throughs.
How Brave
They didn't include this in the release notes? What in the world is going on?
Quietly
The developer made this change from a personal laptop at their local public library.
Shhhhhh.
Despite this trope, public libraries usually don't have a guideline or enforcement on noise levels.
But the developer was definitely using silent tactile switches.
A built-in ad blocker is easily the least problematic announcement coming out of Mozilla in the last year.
That's cool, take the good part of Brave, leave behind the villainous CEO and dodgy crypto scams
I used brave for a while. Recently switched to zen browser to try some better tab management. But despite all braves issues, it’s ad/tracker blocking was always very good imo. I think it will be a good addition to Firefox.
Cool.
Still sticking with uBlock and SponsorBlock (skips all the "this video was sponsored by" segments on YouTube).
It would be really nice too if they implemented Brave's fingerprint randomization, which is obviously not perfect and I'm never going to expect Tor like anonymity, but is far better than most other browsers. Where Mullvad and Tor try to make everyone look the same, Brave randomizes nearly every important fingerprint.
And I know Firefox does this pretty well already, but from the research I did, Brave's fingerprint vector randomization is another level.
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.
Oh if it end up in the iOS app I’ll be thrilled, I use brave for YouTube only on iOS for Adblock
I don’t think it’s as good as uBlock Origin.
It's a re-implementation of the uBlock origin engine in a faster language, and it can be used with all the same lists as uBlock origin. The only thing missing is a decent user interface, and even if Firefox isn't committed to providing one, WaterFox is.
Source on this? Are you saying brave's adblock is reimplementation of ublock. I have never heard of that. Maybe inspiration?
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.
If we are going to eschew open source projects from shitty tech companies, then there’s a pretty long list.
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