Firefox has bundled adblock-rust, Brave’s memory-safe content blocker, into Firefox in version 149, although disabled by default.
Should I enable it then? UBO is working fine for me.
It’s not released yet so you’ll stand out using it, not sure if it’s works properly yet either. It’s mostly just interesting that they are experimenting with it.
This is pretty cool. It’s really interesting that they’re taking this step, and I wonder if it could be opening up the possibility that Mozilla eventually phases out MV2 support someday, since they had mentioned before that it might happen down the road. Either way, this looks like a pretty big win for Firefox.
Interestingly, Tor browser has been looking into shipping UBlock Origin, a highly popular content blocking extension, into Tor browser by default.
Since this has been pushed back to release 17 (not 16 anymore), it might never get added depending on how this develops I guess.
If what you use works fine, unless there’s some sort of serious security issue found in Ublock Origin, I don’t see a reason to switch even after adblock-rust gets more fleshed-out and stops being effectively an experimental feature at best.
Oh, it got pushed back? Man, this must have been a real “steal your girl” moment.
I really hope this gets added to the iOS version, I’d love to fully switch to Firefox on all my devices but having no content blockers on iOS makes it completely worthless imo.
And yeah I could use brave but I prefer Firefox on PC, personal thing.
Firefox on iOS uses WebKit so likely won’t get added if I had to guess.
Maybe there is a way to add something?
I really like this. I use these filters in Firefox focus beta and nightly, that do not have the option of installing ublock origin as in firefox. So this is god send !!
That’s awesome! It can be even more flexible than extension! And I hope it will be more lightweight than extension (critical for raspberry pi)