How incredible i think I’ll start using Firefox again as it’s becoming better i just wish they would create their own email service already.
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Of course they just had to make it somewhat contreversial by adopting braves adblock engine; brave's ceo or whatever funds anti gay lobbyists.
Bruh everything is funded by some sort of criminal. Jeffery Epstein could have donated to the Mozilla foundation for all we know. You literally cannot tell.
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Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.
People won’t pay for anything, and are then surprised by who actually pays for stuff.
These developers need to eat too.
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Huh, right after Waterfox started to implement it themselves. Must have spooked Mozilla. I don't see how using Brave's adblock engine is all that different from uBlock Origin though since they both just enforce DNS lists, right? Could be wrong, I know nothing about how adblocking works on the backend, lol
DNS blocking, like with a Pihole, famously does not remove Youtube ads. So no, the mechanism is totally different.
the brave one doesnt block as good as ublock origin.
Firefox actually started developing it first, and Waterfox caught on and decided to piggyback off of it in a relatively small announcement at the bottom of a retrospective. The Waterfox announcement just got reported on first.
DNS lists?
Fuck no brother (or sister or non-binary sibling)
Anyway. You can go as far as modifying the HTML page by overriding CSS rules.
Overrode the font on a page I am using at work because the vendor is apparantly not using their own product and the font is fucking tiny in some places.
You can override elements, dynamically remove with a selector wildcard, DNS blocks or subscribe to blocklists that can do all of it.
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A built-in ad blocker is easily the least problematic announcement coming out of Mozilla in the last year.
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I said it for Waterfox and I'm gonna say it again for Firefox: this is good. At worst, it's just fine (Mozilla just uses it internally to replace or supplement its old and incomplete Tracker Blocking system, which never gets the same scrutiny).
The biggest difference between Firefox and Waterfox in implementation is the WaterFox developers noticed this FF change early, and committed to providing full-fledged ad blocking out of the box, which is great news for users.
A few more reasons this is good:
- Rust is faster than JavaScript
- Native functionality is faster than an extension
- Actual ad blocking is something Firefox users have been begging Mozilla to do
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As long as it doesn't interfere with Ublock Origin I guess that's fine.
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Quietly
The developer made this change from a personal laptop at their local public library.
Shhhhhh.
Despite this trope, public libraries usually don't have a guideline or enforcement on noise levels.
But the developer was definitely using silent tactile switches.
Maybe not in Canada but every library in Asia has
It would be really nice too if they implemented Brave's fingerprint randomization, which is obviously not perfect and I'm never going to expect Tor like anonymity, but is far better than most other browsers. Where Mullvad and Tor try to make everyone look the same, Brave randomizes nearly every important fingerprint.
And I know Firefox does this pretty well already, but from the research I did, Brave's fingerprint vector randomization is another level.
Fuck no. I don't want Brave stuff in my browser :(
The cool thing about open source is that you can just take it without selling your soul.
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