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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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Does Brave still whitelist Facebook trackers? Is there a way to opt-out of Facebook tracking on Brave for iOS? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1108

Did you read the link you posted? They block many facebook tracking components but there are some things they aren't touching right now because some website depend on facebook for logins.

How can people, who are not using those websites, avoid Facebook tracking on the rest of the web?

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.

Yes. I want a citation for this. As far as I'm aware this is completely untrue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.

Yes. I want a citation for this. As far as I'm aware this is completely untrue.

Found one

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-...

And on their own site:

https://brave.com/brave-ads-launch/

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.

Yes. I want a citation for this. As far as I'm aware this is completely untrue.

For at least one of those claims,

>They monetize the content of others and don't tell them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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So I’m confused about the results. Is the engine faster because of rust or because of improvements to the algorithm?

Algorithm. The title is a bit misleading, and conveys that "it's faster because we re-wrote it in rust". If any thing, the move to rust might cause it to be a little slower (compared to the same thing written in c++ and considering how heavily optimized they said it was; not dinging rust, but you can't just port cpp optimizations to rust with syntax changes due to safety requirements etc).

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.

It's potentially even worse than that. Exploiting this grey area in the law will lead to a response from the courts and lawmakers. That response might well require that browsers display pages exactly as the publisher intends. In other words, the end of ad blockers and other tools, thanks to Brave. (Not at all unlikely given that Google seems to want that too.)

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Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.

Citation please.

The link provided does not address your claims. Full stop.

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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Brave is doing some of the best anti-Corporatist work in the community right now.

They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.

There is always tons of venom of this exact sort thrown at Brave on HN, yet I've used Brave and have not seen any ads that have been spoken of. Even if they did replace, to be frank, the advertising industry already is disgusting and I'd have no problem with it (well at least no more problem than I already do)

In any case it's a great browser, at least better than Chrome when it comes to privacy, and I personally won't fall for the propaganda. Just like Tesla, there is a lot of "old" money that is threatened by the upstart so there is also a lot of negative sentiment.

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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So I’m confused about the results. Is the engine faster because of rust or because of improvements to the algorithm?

It's a new, faster algorithm with rule pattern matching. The language is only mentioned once as an implementation detail, not that rust's 69x faster than C++.
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