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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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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Hmm, they've had their tracking protection built-in for quite a while, which happens to block lots of ads, because most ads contain trackers. I haven't tested with uBlock Origin in a while, though. Do webpages now display non-tracking ads for Firefox?

Otherwise, this seems like a mere technological change with little user impact, which they rightfully didn't make much of a buzz about...