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.
Can we really trust mozilla to be in charge of adblocking? It’s not like users have any power over firefox’s source code if mozilla decides that google ads are okay, for instance. I think it would be a bad idea to prematurely kill ublock origin and assume we’ll never need a community-supported adblocker again.
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.)
Just add custom filter lists. Never understood the outcry back when people used AdGuard and an optional whitelist was on by default.
If you can install a 3rd party web browser, you can change filter rules as well.