Can this extension effectively block ads on YouTube? When I manually enabled the Rust ad blocker in about:config and added filter lists there, ads still appeared on YouTube and some porn sites. While uBlock Origin blocks everything.
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Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
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Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#22Don't want it. Tracker/Ad blocking should forever be an extension, maintained by someone with zero obligation to, or association with, the ad/tracking industry. A USER agent.
"https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt",
"https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt",
"https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt",
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/refs/..."
These are the lists you say you do not want being used.
Please explain how these lists and the people who maintain them are compromised by someone with an obligation or association with the ad/tracking industry. This would be revelatory.
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#23Can this extension effectively block ads on YouTube? When I manually enabled the Rust ad blocker in about:config and added filter lists there, ads still appeared on YouTube and some porn sites. While uBlock Origin blocks everything.
It should be able to. Waterfox is using roughly the same integration and the maintainer has been seeing reports of YouTube issues, but cannot reproduce it.
https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox/issues/4182#issueco...
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#24Cool project but I have to ask. Why not use brave?
Their whole thing looks sketchy, frankly. I'm not saying they're evil or have some deep secret ulterior motive. But their "vision" appears to be bunch of absolutely half-baked ideas for privacy, for which Firefox has a much more boring, and consequently better, track record.
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
This sounds like good advice so upvoted. I’m a big fan of Raymond Hill¹’s products so I am curious about how much benefit Adguard provides if uBlock Origin is already blocking online trackers, ads and other annoyances.
¹ In this case, the developer – not the musician. I really liked the user interface of uMatrix.
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
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Firefox and Brave are both profoundly bad on iOS. Scrolling is a nightmare.
everything on iOS is just a safari skin
That's not totally true. Orion supports Chrome/FF WebExtensions, for example. The engine does (practically, even in the EU) have to be WebKit, but that's not the same thing as a "Safari skin."
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#27Cool 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
Containers are experimental as of very recently. So they will soon, but expect it to be in development right now.
I also test on FF and I don't care much for chromium. I was just curious why the author chose to do this.
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox and Brave are both profoundly bad on iOS. Scrolling is a nightmare.
everything on iOS is just a safari skin
There is Reynard if you're motivated too (Gecko-based, but it's not ready for prime time yet, and to get good performance you'll have to resort to some workaround to get JIT enabled, as it does not rely on Apple's BrowserEngineKit; one of the goals of the project is giving to not up-to-date iOS devices access to a modern browser).
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#29Don't want it. Tracker/Ad blocking should forever be an extension, maintained by someone with zero obligation to, or association with, the ad/tracking industry. A USER agent.
One thing doesn't rule out the other. Just because a browser has a built-in adblocker doesn't mean you can't replace it with another one if it's not working well. Every browser should have at least a basic adblocker enabled by default. Anything else is a major security risk. In the context of web browsers ads are the main entry point for malware. Either through exploits delivered via ad banners or by tricking users i…
If browsers came with ad blocking that's enabled, it would just make those lists less effective since advertisers would have a serious incentive to work around them. I'd rather ad blocking only be used by people who care enough to install it.
Re: Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
#30Don't want it. Tracker/Ad blocking should forever be an extension, maintained by someone with zero obligation to, or association with, the ad/tracking industry. A USER agent.
I'll keep using uBlock Origin, but I don't see having a built-in content blocker as a bad thing, especially if the lists are the same (easylist, etc). It's no different from the (very old) option to block popups.