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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by crazygringo »

michaelt wrote: post #135
lxgr wrote: post #84

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What exactly is your gripe with MV3? Many people seem to treat it synonymously with "no more procedural request blocking", but that's not a thing Mozilla ever did: > For Manifest V3 extensions, Chrome no longer supports the "webRequestBlocking" permission (except for policy-installed extensions). Instead, the "webRequest" and "webRequestAuthProvider" permissions enable you to supply credentials asynchronously. Firefo…

> What exactly is your gripe with MV3? Running an adblocker is the defining feature of the extensions API. ublock origin has 5x as many users as the second-most-popular extension [1] Supporting ublock isn't just a nice-to-have add-on feature for an extension API, it's literally the only thing most users care about. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?promoted=re...

But MV3 supports uBlock Origin Lite.

Which, in my experience, blocks ads just as well, but also lets pages load significantly faster.

MV3 supports uBlock.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by maleldil »

elros wrote: post #134

I stopped paying attention when the major browsers started to act somewhat against the interests of ad-blocking add-ons, some years ago. Would anyone who has kept up let me know what would be the 2026 "industry standard" in terms of an ad-blocking and privacy stack? I primarily use Chrome on Mac and Safari on iPhone but I'm willing to change browsers for better ad-blocking and privacy. I would also be interested in s…

Firefox with uBlock Origin. Nothing else comes close.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by rpdillon »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #104
Paul-Craft wrote: post #31

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

If he showed up in the Epstein files I'd stop using Brave. Until then, I'll keep on rolling my eyes whenever someone brings up this stuff from... 2008.

Indeed. I wonder if the folks rejecting Brave have also vetted the political beliefs of everyone that delivers their packages, manufactured their phone, and grown their food.

The injection of politics into absolutely everything is so arbitrary and harmful.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by Moldoteck »

crazygringo wrote: post #161
michaelt wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What exactly is your gripe with MV3? Running an adblocker is the defining feature of the extensions API. ublock origin has 5x as many users as the second-most-popular extension [1] Supporting ublock isn't just a nice-to-have add-on feature for an extension API, it's literally the only thing most users care about. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?promoted=re...

But MV3 supports uBlock Origin Lite. Which, in my experience, blocks ads just as well, but also lets pages load significantly faster. MV3 supports uBlock.

It supports limited ublock functionality, not all of it, which will gradually be exploited by ad corps like google unless you think those are saints

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by krapp »

HauntingPin wrote: post #160
imtringued wrote: post #129

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Isn't this blog post more evidence that drewdevault became an extreme leftist? I mean he's basically going off a checklist of leftist stereotypes here and trying to check as many of them as possible. Meanwhile the other guy he's criticising is literally just a standard right-wing conservative, not far right, not alt right, just the regular kind. The far right I've seen is basically beyond the idea of being merely ant…

Sorry, but painting these people as "standard right-wing" is just evidence for the shifting of the Overton window further to the right. White replacement theory and expressing support for an alt-right ideologue who manipulated people with bad faith, dishonest and downright monstrous arguments is not "standard right-wing". Charlie Kirk was for mass deportation . He didn't even hide it. He said it openly. How do you co…

>White replacement theory and expressing support for an alt-right ideologue who manipulated people with bad faith, dishonest and downright monstrous arguments is not "standard right-wing".

It is now. That's what the shifting of the Overton Window and normalization of right-wing ideology does. These aren't fringe beliefs anymore, they're commonly held, mainstream right-wing views. They're policy within the US government. Charlie Kirk was treated as a martyr and a hero by the administration. He was treated with more dignity and respect than war veterans. The DHS posts memes about mass deportation.

The "far right" and "alt-right" no longer exist. Those labels are no longer useful and no longer describe reality.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by pixxel »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #97
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…

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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by ndisn »

nananana9 wrote: post #145
wallst07 wrote: post #140

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There is a single toggle to turn this off, if it makes people rage so much for something you get for free (I realize not free beer/freedom) then I don't know what else to say. To be clear, the toggle is to turn off the 'wallet' feature that isn't even enabled until you use it. So you are just disabling seeing the thing at all... with a simple toggle.

I also have to disable the "acceptable ads", with a simple toggle. And the AI bullshit from their builtin search engine, I'd guess that too is a simple toggle. Without googling, I'd put good money that there's a thing called "Brave VPN" in the homepage by default, and I have to disable that with a simple toggle. In two years I may have to disable the crypto-miner, still with a simple toggle, of course, very user conv…

Correct. You have to spend a while in settings disabling stuff.

The browser does not re-enable the things you have disabled, but they keep implementing new stuff that you have to disable too.

It’s annoying, although that’s how most software works nowadays (and I include Firefox unfortunately). You have to disable a lot of stuff to make it usable.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by daneel_w »

wallst07 wrote: post #142
jasonvorhe wrote: post #97

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> so you're already half a fascist for using Brave, Are you really calling the 100M monthly brave users half fascist? Can you explain more how you reach this conclusion, specifically relative to every other product you judge people for using?

OP was making a sarcastic joke, but nobody bothers reading the second paragraph to understand that.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by gib444 »

evilpie wrote: post #79

> The Firefox team is experimenting with ways to improve the built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection feature in Firefox. This is one of the libraries we're going to experiment with. > - We are not, and have no plans to abandon MV2 extensions. This will ensure certain types of add-ons, like ad-blockers, continue to work best in Firefox. > - Firefox supports several ad-blockers as add-ons on Desktop and Android, includin…

Am I so jaded that I read "we have no plans to" as "we likely will" ?
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