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.
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