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Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by kuekacang »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

Genuine question, does brave have ff's container extension? currently that's one of the thing that keeps holding me on ff. another big one is i test website on firefox so to not get carried away with features only available in chromium

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by RandomGerm4n »

monegator wrote: post #11
2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

why use brave, really, when you have firefox? I get it if you're on iOS

I’m a Firefox user myself but there are some very valid arguments against it on Android as well. Firefox on Android is significantly more vulnerable to exploits, lacks internal sandboxing and doesn’t properly isolate tabs from each other.

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by Barbing »

monegator wrote: post #11
2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

why use brave, really, when you have firefox? I get it if you're on iOS

Best iOS strategy that comes to mind is Safari:

  -iCloud Private Relay (native VPN-like thing)  
  -uBlock Origin Lite
  -AdGuard DNS
(Using fresh private tabs for small privacy gain?) Better than third-party skinned browsers right? Always happy to be informed otherwise.

(AdGuard does have an option to supplant uBlock in this stack btw, does “advanced” blocking https://adguard.com/kb/adguard-for-ios/web-extension/ which is nice but trust $mm-refusing uBlock dev gorhill forever)

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by avazhi »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

Why would you use Brave when for many years it wouid surreptitiously install a VPN service on your Windows machine. The Brave devs took more than a year to even address it, let alone remove it.

More ideologically, Google and Chromium are awful for the internet as monopolistic tech.

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by avazhi »

monegator wrote: post #11
2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

why use brave, really, when you have firefox? I get it if you're on iOS

Firefox and Brave are both profoundly bad on iOS. Scrolling is a nightmare.

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by jdmg94 »

avazhi wrote: post #18
monegator wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why use brave, really, when you have firefox? I get it if you're on iOS

Firefox and Brave are both profoundly bad on iOS. Scrolling is a nightmare.

everything on iOS is just a safari skin

Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker

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Post by ndisn »

avazhi wrote: post #17
2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?

Why would you use Brave when for many years it wouid surreptitiously install a VPN service on your Windows machine. The Brave devs took more than a year to even address it, let alone remove it. More ideologically, Google and Chromium are awful for the internet as monopolistic tech.

What’s wrong with a VPN service as long as it doesn’t route your traffic or anything.
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