Gave it a try, fully understanding it’s not even a released feature yet, it works alright, but on Twitch it fully breaks streams, so watch out for that if you decide to run with it.
I use uBlock Origin and disable all the Firefox stuff, no need for two. And now that they are using shit from Brave, I will disable that crap from a horrid company.
it’s an open source component built on the same system as ublock. it’s good for firefox that they add stuff people actually want.
They could just have easily built in the ublock origin plugin and not gone with braves implementation, a browser that is plagued with justified scandal.
Why Firefox would tie its fate to its disgraced founder is beyond me.
Rust is faster than JavaScript.
Sure, so they should have used some of that AI cash to rebuild ublock origin in rust, or push it further along the path to web assembly its already on.
…because he also founded firefox?
Hes also a bigot that was removed from leadership at Mozilla that has run multiple scams via Brave, all while taking Thiel bucks. What’s your point?
i think i misunderstood your earlier reply, i thought you were talking about eich as the founder of brave, but you meant that he was the founder of firefox.
yeah he sucks.
i don’t think he wrote the adblocker though.
i guess they receive some cash to distribute brave malware
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?
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.
