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.

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    19 days ago

    Oh yeah I wasn’t trying to say this wasn’t interesting, just trying to make sure people didn’t get the wrong idea of what it meant.