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.

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
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    21 days ago

    Is this a step towards implementing Google’s same extension restrictions in FF, setting themselves up as the primary arbiter of adblock tools?

    I wouldn’t expect that:

    Firefox, however, will continue supporting both blockingWebRequest and declarativeNetRequest — giving developers more flexibility and keeping powerful privacy tools available to users

    https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-manifest-v3-adblockers/

    and

    And even if we re-evaluate this decision at some point down the road, we anticipate providing a notice of at least 12 months for developers to adjust accordingly and not feel rushed.

    https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

    So even if that would change (which I’d be very surprised by), it wouldn’t happen for another twelve months, so plenty of time for outrage then.