Deep@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoFirefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engineshivankaul.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down12
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minus-squareZarxrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·8 hours agoIs there any benefit to this over ublock origin?
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 hours agoit’s a lot faster since it’s not built with js. less customisable though, since there’s no ui, although i imagine they’re working on that.
minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoTo add to this: Waterfox has promised to implement a UI even if Mozilla doesn’t.
minus-squareF/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·8 hours agoMore generic and therefore worse for fingerprinting. Though that’s only because it’s built in and standardized.
minus-squaremnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoIf it’s shipping by default, it’s better for preventing fingerprinting. If it’s default on the browser, that’s one less indentifying detail
minus-square5gruel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agowhat does that even mean? what aspect is more generic that could be used for fingerprinting?
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 minutes agofingerprinting can be based on detecting what resources are blocked, and sometimes also how are they blocked. but blocking will become the baseline, so nefarious companies will have less of chance to tell the difference
minus-squarevaionko@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoEvery Firefox will have this. Every Firefox doesn’t have uBlock
minus-squareCorvidae@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoIs there any value in redundancy?
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 hours agono, but no harm either. they use the same lists so one of them will just be doing nothing whenever the other removes something.
Is there any benefit to this over ublock origin?
it’s a lot faster since it’s not built with js. less customisable though, since there’s no ui, although i imagine they’re working on that.
To add to this: Waterfox has promised to implement a UI even if Mozilla doesn’t.
More generic and therefore worse for fingerprinting. Though that’s only because it’s built in and standardized.
If it’s shipping by default, it’s better for preventing fingerprinting. If it’s default on the browser, that’s one less indentifying detail
what does that even mean? what aspect is more generic that could be used for fingerprinting?
fingerprinting can be based on detecting what resources are blocked, and sometimes also how are they blocked. but blocking will become the baseline, so nefarious companies will have less of chance to tell the difference
Every Firefox will have this. Every Firefox doesn’t have uBlock
Is there any value in redundancy?
no, but no harm either. they use the same lists so one of them will just be doing nothing whenever the other removes something.