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Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine (lemmy.nz)

submitted 3 months ago by XLE@piefed.social to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Anyone know how this compares, performance and security wise, to uBlock?

Is this a step towards implementing Google's same extension restrictions in FF, setting themselves up as the primary arbiter of adblock tools?

In today's day and age adblocking feels like a core function of a browser, but also why replace something that works perfectly well with extensions?

Mixed feelings on this one.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago

It's probably faster than using an extension, especially if we're talking about the mobile version of Firefox, which is still very unoptimized compared to Chrome-based browsers.

[–] jello@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

I don't know about this specifically, but Rust in general is fast and at least memory safe (which helps with general security but doesn't guarantee it at by any means).

I also used Brave for quite a while and anecdotally it was quite fast. So in my personal experience the performance is good.

I don't see it as a step towards bring google-like, personally. But who knows with FF these days

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

Is this a step towards implementing Google’s same extension restrictions in FF, setting themselves up as the primary arbiter of adblock tools?

I wouldn't expect that:

Firefox, however, will continue supporting both blockingWebRequest and declarativeNetRequest — giving developers more flexibility and keeping powerful privacy tools available to users

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-manifest-v3-adblockers/

and

And even if we re-evaluate this decision at some point down the road, we anticipate providing a notice of at least 12 months for developers to adjust accordingly and not feel rushed.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

So even if that would change (which I'd be very surprised by), it wouldn't happen for another twelve months, so plenty of time for outrage then.