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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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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 11 points 3 months ago

Haha, I don't think anyone's talking about killing uBO, and I'm fairly sure gorhill wouldn't do that, unless he grew tired of maintaining it.

(They could remove the APIs it uses, like Chromium did to some extent, but Mozilla has publicly committed to not doing that.)