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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine (itsfoss.com)
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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 43 points 5 hours ago

"Quietly™" by posting about it beforehand everywhere they could.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 9 points 5 hours ago

a default-disabled prototype

No wonder it didn't show up in normal/enduser release notes.

This article suggests you have to disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection to test it. Does it replace that entire system with an equivalent system?

I'll wait until it's stable and productive.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 44 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Cool.

Still sticking with uBlock and SponsorBlock (skips all the "this video was sponsored by" segments on YouTube).

[–] laz@pawb.social 14 points 5 hours ago

Add DeArrow in there as well (anti-clickbait)

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

SponsorBlock

I believe uBlock manages to remove all ads on yt by tickling the subscription of some list bundled in its installation already

[–] axo10tl@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 hours ago

SponsorBlock skips past the video segments which contain sponsored advertisement. There's no overlap with what uBlock does.

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

That's cool, take the good part of Brave, leave behind the villainous CEO and dodgy crypto scams

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I used brave for a while. Recently switched to zen browser to try some better tab management. But despite all braves issues, it’s ad/tracker blocking was always very good imo. I think it will be a good addition to Firefox.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think you can separate a product from their CEO

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

In the Open Source world you can always fork.

[–] polle@feddit.org 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why did they not just set ublock as a default installed plugin?

[–] loics2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Because the performance of brave lib is a little better since it doesn't go through the plugin API

[–] polle@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Is it? Like YouTube is less laggy with that? Thats the only situation where i see actual delays by adblocking

[–] bunnydog@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How incredible i think I’ll start using Firefox again as it’s becoming better i just wish they would create their own email service already.

[–] kalistia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Where it stores all the data? USA? Or some Big Tech cloud?

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