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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
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[โ€“] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

seems a bit dangerous though to risk for a browser with so small market share

They should have built it in years ago, but called it "web security filtering" or something and included only a basic security blocklist, but left it easy to add other lists.

[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

still it wasn't blocking ads, and even I as a poweruser was not aware that I could add externally maintained ad blocklists