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

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Post by Anthony-G »

Barbing wrote: post #34
Anthony-G wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It’s really nice to have ad and tracker domains blocked systemwide though I think you need to be more careful and set your device up as supervised to have more robust blocking (real always-on VPN functionality vs. best effort?). And even then when I read about defects in Apple software that means a firewall like Little Snitch isn’t perfect (macOS) I think an external device (mobile VPN router?) is going to be essenti…

I can see how system-wide blocking would be useful. I’m personally very conservative and wary about apps that I install on my iPhone (I don’t use any ad-supported apps) so the browser is the “attack surface” that I’m most concerned about.

I already use uBlock Origin and iCloud Private Relay (as advised in your original post). I also use Private Browser tabs and regularly remove all “Website Data” from Safari (minor inconvenience in that I have to re-login to sites that I have an account on).

I’ve just installed AdGuard on my iPhone to try it out but see that the DNS protection requires a Premium subscription (it now occurs to me that I could possibly install Wireguard to connect to my VPS where I’m already running my own DNS server). I’ve also `never looked into supervised mode; I always assumed it wasn’t relevant for personal devices.

Thanks for the reply.

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

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Post by 2ndorderthought »

thesuitonym wrote: post #38
2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

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

Brave is malware. https://www.reddit.com/user/lo________________ol/comments/1i...

The top comment response from brave was incredibly rational. Seems like they aren't perfect but are consistent. Am I missing something?

Chrome and Firefox have also both had serious issues. I'm not sure who is the best right now but it's kind of hard to vouch for any of the major browsers

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

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Post by 2ndorderthought »

gpm wrote: post #35
2ndorderthought wrote: post #7

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

I care a good deal that I trust the people who developed my browser. It's about the most critical piece of software in my life. From banking to professionally to personal life. The people who developed brave used brave to impersonate people and defraud their users out of money by asking for donations using other peoples names [1]. I don't trust them at all. Thus I don't use their browser. And, unsurprisingly, this is…

Wtaf? Never heard about this. I don't use any of the token stuff but that's scary stuff

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

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Post by nathanmills »

embedding-shape wrote: post #3

> Disable Firefox's built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection so adblock-rust handles blocking instead. What concrete and practical differences are there between the two? I'm guessing because this exists, adblock-rust somehow is better than the built-in ETP? In what way? I'm using ETP + uBlock Origin right now, and can't remember the last time I saw an ad, if I used this instead, what practical differences would I notice…

It's memory safe

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

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Post by dartharva »

kgwxd wrote: post #2

Don'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.

The entirety of the web browser runs in userspace afaik. Whatever goes there and within is de facto a user agent.

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

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Post by lproven »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #43
gpm wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I care a good deal that I trust the people who developed my browser. It's about the most critical piece of software in my life. From banking to professionally to personal life. The people who developed brave used brave to impersonate people and defraud their users out of money by asking for donations using other peoples names [1]. I don't trust them at all. Thus I don't use their browser. And, unsurprisingly, this is…

Wtaf? Never heard about this. I don't use any of the token stuff but that's scary stuff

Then you haven't been listening, because it's been widely discussed and well publicised.

My personal two favourite piece on Brave are these...

2023:

« Stop using Brave Browser

Seriously.

Corbin Davenport

07 Aug 2023 »

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

And from a couple of years later, with a very apt URL...

2025:

« Why I recommend against Brave

Luca Bramè

March 24, 2025 »

https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

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

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Post by thesuitonym »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #42
thesuitonym wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave is malware. https://www.reddit.com/user/lo________________ol/comments/1i...

The top comment response from brave was incredibly rational. Seems like they aren't perfect but are consistent. Am I missing something? Chrome and Firefox have also both had serious issues. I'm not sure who is the best right now but it's kind of hard to vouch for any of the major browsers

Well consider that Brave and Chrome are made by for-profit companies that will stop at nothing to extract every bit of money they can from you, while Firefox is made by a non-profit that just wants to make a browser.

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

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Post by WeatherClock »

embedding-shape wrote: post #3

> Disable Firefox's built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection so adblock-rust handles blocking instead. What concrete and practical differences are there between the two? I'm guessing because this exists, adblock-rust somehow is better than the built-in ETP? In what way? I'm using ETP + uBlock Origin right now, and can't remember the last time I saw an ad, if I used this instead, what practical differences would I notice…

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