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.
A built-in ad blocker is better. Hopely Mozilla doesn’t do something stupid with it.
I’m mostly worried they’ll underutilize it! That would be unfortunate, but it would still be an improvement.
Well, unlike Brave, Firefox needs to not break legitimate webpages. If a webdev wants to support Firefox and it just doesn’t display a (non-ad) element they’ve added, then they might not bother supporting Firefox after all.
I disagree. It might change nothing for us on Lemmy already using plenty of extensions but it changes things for millions and it will hit Google very hard