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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by type0 »

PufPufPuf wrote: post #138
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…

So like... Google Chrome with adblocker and Tampermonkey bundled? Just need to disable the cryptocurrency stuff? You don't really make it sound good.

There's a minimal version called Brave Origin https://brave.com/sv/ublock-origin-alternative/

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by cookiengineer »

throwawaypath wrote: post #203
cookiengineer wrote: post #75

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> Good luck with the main developer being in the alt right. Sources? I can't find anything on that via google/ddg (Germany) edit: oof. [1] https://drewdevault.com/blog/Cloudflare-and-fascists/

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> Linking a pedo-leftist schizophrenic's blog post as "proof" does the complete opposite of supporting the claim.

Sources for those pretty serious claims?

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by JoshTriplett »

MarsIronPI wrote: post #214
Timon3 wrote: post #202

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And the non-technical factors are what my friends and loved ones have to experience due to Brendan Eich's choices. So again, why should I ignore them? I'm more than a user of software.

Because when we decide on a goal for our technical work and decide on an acceptable code of conduct inside the project , our differences outside the project don't matter to our collaboration within the project. This is a core foundation of the Free Software and Open Source movements. (And it's worrisome to me that it's being eroded.) My point is that this same setting aside of irrelevant (to the technical aspects) di…

> Because when we decide on a goal for our technical work and decide on an acceptable code of conduct inside the project, our differences outside the project don't matter to our collaboration within the project.

That's a choice you are free to make. Other people can and will make different choices. Many people never shared that principle, and instead happily exercised freedom of association to not support or spend time around awful people.

Projects are not some magic boundary in which everything outside is left outside. You can't dump piles of money into hurting your colleagues and expect them to see that as a neutral choice.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by JoshTriplett »

MarsIronPI wrote: post #219
Timon3 wrote: post #216

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I'm not working on a project together with Brendan Eich, I'm choosing not to use a product from which he directly profits. I sincerely hope that we both agree that this is a completely normal and rational choice.

I think I failed to explain my point: Just like OSS contributors don't have to agree on anything but the goal of the project and how to treat each other while working on it, people shouldn't decide what software to use based on anything but the technical merits of the program. Also, you don't have to benefit Brendan Eich by using Brave. Turn off the crypto and AFAICT Brave gets no money from you. Not that I actually…

You have explained your point. You have not understood why people reject it.

> I'm just tired and worried by the attitude of judging software by the non-technical opinions of who wrote it.

And I'm thrilled that it continues to happen more and more.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by JoshTriplett »

kulahan wrote: post #72
JoshTriplett wrote: post #56

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You are literally on a thread about Firefox, and you think someone saying they don't use Brave must be using Chrome?

You are literally in a thread where 90% of the discussion is surrounding chromium and you think this isn’t a connected idea? Edit: also crazy that someone who doesn’t want to support the Brave guy would support the browser using the Brave guy’s stuff, but I guess I see lots of chick-fil-a haters shopping in Amazon these days, so who am I to question what’s in vogue?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900153

> Brendan Eich didn't personally write the code, and he doesn't benefit from Firefox using it. If anything this hurts him, since Firefox is catching up to an advantage of Brave without investing their own development resources.

> No matter from what angle I look at this situation, your complaint makes no sense.

Don't assume the positions of people who disagree with you are not thought out. It is a dangerous line of reasoning to go "if only they thought it through for more than five seconds they'd agree with me".

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by brycewray »

gorhill wrote: post #211
brycewray wrote: post #198

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I will recheck my uBOL settings, then, sir. Thank you for your work! EDIT: I did have it set to `Complete,` so perhaps I have something else going on.

Best is to report the issue using the "Report an issue" in the popup panel while on Reddit site. There could be other issues causing this, for instance if you didn't grant uBOL the permission to inject scripts on the site. Depending on which browser/os the issue occurs, we should be able to narrow down potential causes.

> There could be other issues causing this, for instance if you didn't grant uBOL the permission to inject scripts on the site.

Bingo. That was it. Again, thanks.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by throwawaypath »

cookiengineer wrote: post #222
throwawaypath wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Linking a pedo-leftist schizophrenic's blog post as "proof" does the complete opposite of supporting the claim. Sources for those pretty serious claims?

https://archive.is/rEvdD

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by ragall »

crazygringo wrote: post #208
ragall wrote: post #187

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Most definitely not as well.

It most definitely is as well. In fact it's better because you don't have the slower page loading times anymore. And everyone I know who used UBO and switched to UBOL has had no complaints about ads not being blocked. Whereas people who don't actually use it love to continue to insist that it's this degraded experience that doesn't work as well. And usually when one of them comes up with an example of some ad not bei…

> And everyone I know

Everyone who you know is irrelevant. I've tested and see that ads pass through, and tracking passes through with uBo light on Chrome. I can see it in the browser trace, and I can see it in DNS logs.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by crazygringo »

ragall wrote: post #228
crazygringo wrote: post #208

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It most definitely is as well. In fact it's better because you don't have the slower page loading times anymore. And everyone I know who used UBO and switched to UBOL has had no complaints about ads not being blocked. Whereas people who don't actually use it love to continue to insist that it's this degraded experience that doesn't work as well. And usually when one of them comes up with an example of some ad not bei…

> And everyone I know Everyone who you know is irrelevant. I've tested and see that ads pass through, and tracking passes through with uBo light on Chrome. I can see it in the browser trace, and I can see it in DNS logs.

Your test is irrelevant. There is always going to be some tiny percentage of ads that passed through with any ad blocker. So the fact that you have seen ads passed through with it doesn't actually mean anything.

The only thing that means anything is how well it operates with your average browsing on a daily basis. And it's such a popular extension because it does an amazing job at blocking ads. That's just a fact. The only people who seem to claim otherwise appear to be the ones with an ideological axe to grind. It's silly.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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