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Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by antonok »

theultdev wrote: post #255
satvikpendem wrote: post #252

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That is hilarious to be fair, like a modern day Robin Hood.

It was an interesting experience. I'm still not entirely sure it's for the best or not. On one hand, it is a concentration of power into hands a few people. On the other, it is for a good cause, to maintain a list of ad network and site banners that drain resources, cause privacy issues, etc. The Easylist people aren't saints. They get paid off by Google to allow "Acceptable Ads". So you just show a different campaig…

You're probably thinking of Adblock Plus? Acceptable Ads is their program; EasyList has no such policy or ties.

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by winrid »

nomel wrote: post #267
winrid wrote: post #117

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It's so much cheaper to optimize now than before.

What is this based on? Could you expand on this a bit?

Just personal experience using LLMs. I've optimized a lot of things in the past year I wouldn't normally have time to do, especially build systems/pipelines.

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by aguscruiz »

apparent wrote: post #19
dmix wrote: post #17

I just found out Brave supports Vertical tabs, https://brave.com/blog/vertical-tabs/ I might have to try switching from FF...

Do they support nested tabs? Makes visually navigating many tabs so much easier that way.

Not yet but it's in development (I'm a product designer at Brave). We're working through other issues with vertical tabs before we continue work on this :)

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/44345

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by aguscruiz »

aaravchen wrote: post #111
dmix wrote: post #17

I just found out Brave supports Vertical tabs, https://brave.com/blog/vertical-tabs/ I might have to try switching from FF...

It does not actually support hierarchical ("tree") tabs natively yet though. They have a placeholder switch for it in the settings.

Not yet but it's in development (I'm a product designer at Brave). We're working through other issues with vertical tabs before we continue work on this :) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/44345

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by DerArzt »

dmix wrote: post #231
Dah00n wrote: post #212

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Firefox has vertical tabs...

That's the only reason I use FF, plus the better adblocker support over Chrome and maybe some of the advanced network privacy stuff.

Adblocker support, in chrome? Does that exist still (I use FF at home with blockers and vanila chrome without extensions at work).

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by bastawhiz »

WackyFighter wrote: post #178
bastawhiz wrote: post #112

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Linux distros won't host the code for the commercial bits. It doesn't matter if you can hide it, it's the fact that it's there at all

Most distros have a way of installing proprietary software via enabling additional repos after install.

And you can do that if you want with Brave

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Post by coffeeling »

DerArzt wrote: post #286
dmix wrote: post #231

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That's the only reason I use FF, plus the better adblocker support over Chrome and maybe some of the advanced network privacy stuff.

Adblocker support, in chrome? Does that exist still (I use FF at home with blockers and vanila chrome without extensions at work).

Yes. They are weaker, but Manifest v3 has been tweaked a good bit since the very initial announcements, and people have figured out ways to compress old-format blocklists into Manifest v3 compatible rulesets that can remain surprisingly extensive. They are weaker than v2 blockers or Brave Shields, without a doubt, but they do still do a decent job.

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by coffeeling »

methuselah_in wrote: post #269

But why not use Firefox with ublock? Brave is also chrome beneath. If google pulls the plug what is brave or other browsers anyway?

Chromium is still markedly ahead of Firefox on security, especially on mobile.
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