Well, Firefox is finally working on an ad blocker.

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

Well, Firefox is finally working on an ad blocker.

Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.

It's FOSS (itsfoss.com)

#firefox #brave #opensource

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@itsfoss And it's the Nazi ad blocker. Great.

[avlcharlie@mastodon.social]

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[micdan@mstdn.party]

@wcbdata @itsfoss Why it's Nazi? I'm out of context.

[n4ch1sm0@mastodon.social]

@micdan @wcbdata @itsfoss
Brave's CEO is a total POS, and Brave as a platform has done morally questionable things throughout its development:

Stop using Brave Browser

Seriously.

The Spacebar (www.spacebar.news)

That being said, Friefox using a piece of open source software where we can all audit the product I don't think is aweful. I stopped using Brave because fuck Brave, admittedly not because Brave's adblocking sucked.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@Huubje @itsfoss Importantly (as long as there's still support for the type of extensions we currently have support for), nothing stops you from using your normal ad blocker.

[perun93@mastodon.social]

@n4ch1sm0 @micdan @wcbdata @itsfoss Plus Peter Thiel being one of the first investors through one of his companies

[haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com]

@wcbdata
Feel free to elaborate. I havent heard this one yet.
@itsfoss

[distante@mastodon.social]

@n4ch1sm0 @micdan @wcbdata @itsfoss I agree that the people behind Brave aren’t exactly trustworthy, but if the code is open-source, what’s the problem?

I’m not an expert on this subject and can’t judge the quality of uBlock/adblock-rust or what it means for the future of Firefox

[wcbdata@vis.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@n4ch1sm0/116459729480185754

@haui @itsfoss

@n4ch1sm0 explained it well:

vis.social

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[mkyral@mastodonczech.cz]

@phl @Huubje @itsfoss This could be a prep work to allow fully switch to Manifest V3.

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@Distante I'm mostly concerned about supporting a project led by that particular individual and his friends. Maybe fork it and leave it Mozilla-owned? Dump the original project?

[el_haych2024@mastodon.social]

@wcbdata @itsfoss at the end of the day, it's better to use it because it works, then ridicule it because it came from immoral people. I wouldn't throw away knowledge about treatment for hypothermia just because the most beneficial "research" came from German Nazis.

[n4ch1sm0@mastodon.social]

@wcbdata @Distante I agree; that'd definitely be in far better taste.

[libreovergratis@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss If you're still using firefox, but complain about brave being ethically questionable, you should probably look a little closer at the Mozilla Foundation.

I personally prefer LibreWolf or Ungoogled-Chromium. It's still unfortunately downstream of firefox/chrome, but finding a functional modern browser that isn't is near impossible.