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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by FireInsight »

Markoff wrote: post #57

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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by unethical_ban »

dlcarrier wrote: post #37
Steve6 wrote: post #9

I migrated from Firefox to Brave years ago, and it's been incredible. It's easy to turn off the crypto stuff and turn on more advanced privacy protection. Then it's just a fast browser with awesome adblocking. My favorite recent feature has been Brave Scriptlets, which are just little javascript functions you can run on specific sites. I've replaced most of the add ons I used with small scripts. Pretty nice. I would…

It's too bad that Mozilla does everything they can to alienate its users, with failed attempts to attract a different but non-existent new user-base. Without them, and with Safari being run by a company that likes to tie its software to its hardware, there's pretty much no reasonable non-Chrome-based web browsers, so it's the new Internet Explorer, and many web pages only work on it, because no one tests their web pa…

I simply have no idea why people hate on Firefox so much. I mean it, it feels like an outlet for frustration toward an org people think might listen.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by SadTrombone »

toofy wrote: post #4
nextaccountic wrote: post #2

Does this benefit people that use uBlock Origin? Maybe uBlock Origin for Firefox could be updated to make use of this

sounds like it just uses ublocks lists. though it doesn’t seem to work as well as ublock, the ad slots are still there with just the ad missing so there’s a giant ugly blank spot.

I'd imagine that's the reason it's not enabled by default, they're not finished fully implementing it in Firefox yet.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by SadTrombone »

kulahan wrote: post #42
Paul-Craft wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can certainly imagine such a world. I don't use Brave because I don't want to support Brendan Eich.

So instead you use, what, Chrome because you want to support Sundar Pichai??

If only there was another browser option that was the first word of this thread's title!

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by 6ak74rfy »

userbinator wrote: post #55
devsda wrote: post #3

I hope this isn't a precursor to removing support for other AdBlock addons(MV2) citing native availability of an AdBlock engine and then gradually shift to acceptable ads etc.

As long as MITM proxies still work (which is something that Enterprise customers demand --- even the notoriously-closed Chrome needs to), it will always be possible to filter pages outside of any browser. I've been using one for over 2 decades and it works in any browser. However, I am also concerned that this is an "embrace extend extinguish" move.

Tell me more, what's your setup.

I use uBlock Origin in Firefox and network ad blocker. Wondering what other options are there.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by Zardoz84 »

Steve6 wrote: post #9

I migrated from Firefox to Brave years ago, and it's been incredible. It's easy to turn off the crypto stuff and turn on more advanced privacy protection. Then it's just a fast browser with awesome adblocking. My favorite recent feature has been Brave Scriptlets, which are just little javascript functions you can run on specific sites. I've replaced most of the add ons I used with small scripts. Pretty nice. I would…

uBlock Origin was and is the BEST adblock. And it was one of the fist suggested add-ons when you get in the add-ons page. It should have been integrated.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by johnsea »

topspin wrote: post #41
pogue wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone has made these Brave debloat tools that basically do the same thing as their ridiculous Origin offering. To sell for $60 a web browser that technically has all the features removed is a pretty goofy move.

> a pretty goofy move I'm doing a goofy thing and buying it, despite knowing I can debloat Brave, because I already do that. I didn't know this existed till I read this thread. I've been benefitting from Brave for many years now; it's great that they've provided a way to pay for this without dealing with the crypto stuff, and I'm extremely happy to do so, because they deserve some of my money.

I'll also pay and support their work to provide a really good browser (which needed a bit debloating).

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by Zardoz84 »

cookiengineer wrote: post #18
pogue wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be genuinely curious what you could switch to that still has MV2 because, AFAIK, Firefox is the last holdout. Brave still allows you to install uBlock & some other extensions that should technically not be supported under MV3, but they still ship it with support for those. Just heard about Helium browser, which is just dechromium + uBlock and it's still beta.

> I'd be genuinely curious what you could switch to that still has MV2 because, AFAIK, Firefox is the last holdout. My last hope is ladybird right now, I don't use Firefox or Chrome as my main browsers anymore, and use them only within temporary sandboxes. Without history, without cookies, without logins for the most part.

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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by bartvk »

gbil wrote: post #19

If this means that they release a iOS version with the same Adblock features as brave then I’m sold. I use essentially all OSs and I want a browser with basic features like adblocking/custom filters on all the platforms and currently Firefox fails this on iOS devices. Still I believe the Firefox sync is much more robust than eg. Brave one , among various platforms. But then I will also need Firefox to fix keyboard sh…

Same, I'd love for the iOS version to be a little more developed. Especially support for plugins for dark mode and stuff. Safari for iOS does.
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