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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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[–] 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