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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by nananana9 »

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…

"The first thing you have to do is to turn off the cryptocurrency stuff."

Fantastic first impression. I'm good, thanks.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

#92

Post by lxgr »

userbinator wrote: post #55
devsda wrote: post #3

I hope this isn't a precursor to removing support for other AdBlock addons(MV2) citing native availability of an AdBlock engine and then gradually shift to acceptable ads etc.

As long as MITM proxies still work (which is something that Enterprise customers demand --- even the notoriously-closed Chrome needs to), it will always be possible to filter pages outside of any browser. I've been using one for over 2 decades and it works in any browser. However, I am also concerned that this is an "embrace extend extinguish" move.

What would prevent sites from just injecting ads into their content server-side? You'll always need both element and request blocking.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

#93

Post by lxgr »

poisonborz wrote: post #65

Why do people still have hope in / clinge on Firefox when projects like Librewolf and Waterfox exists? Yes those are still dependent on Mozilla's upstream changes, but users not trusting them have still options.

Maybe they're being realistic about how long these projects could survive without Mozilla doing all the work upstream?

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by lxgr »

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…

> This will ensure certain types of add-ons, like ad-blockers, continue to work best in Firefox.

Oof, so even people that should really know better are now equating MV3 with "no more ad blocking"? I think at this point the entire thing just needs to be renamed.

(Only Chrome removed the request blocking API from their MV3 implementation; Firefox did not.)

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

#95

Post by globalnode »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #6
devsda wrote: post #3

I hope this isn't a precursor to removing support for other AdBlock addons(MV2) citing native availability of an AdBlock engine and then gradually shift to acceptable ads etc.

The day Firefox drops MV2 is the day I find a new browser. We're already at <1% usershare, it's not like there's safety in numbers here

If Raymond Hill says blocking doesnt work anymore, ill use... umm... Lynx?

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

#97

Post by jasonvorhe »

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

#98

Post by aucisson_masque »

nananana9 wrote: post #91
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…

"The first thing you have to do is to turn off the cryptocurrency stuff." Fantastic first impression. I'm good, thanks.

Lol. That's actually pretty bad for a web browser.

Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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Post by [deleted] »

lxgr wrote: post #94
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…

> This will ensure certain types of add-ons, like ad-blockers, continue to work best in Firefox. Oof, so even people that should really know better are now equating MV3 with "no more ad blocking"? I think at this point the entire thing just needs to be renamed. (Only Chrome removed the request blocking API from their MV3 implementation; Firefox did not.)

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Re: Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

#100

Post by jasonvorhe »

Markoff wrote: post #58
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…

Why not Cromite (or Ultimatum, Helium)? Hard to understand why someone reading HN use browser without extensions support.

Do any of them support sync ootb, selfhosted?
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