lemmy.net.au
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

itsfoss.com

external-link
message-square
131
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • technology@lemmit.online
561
external-link

Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

itsfoss.com

Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
message-square
131
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • technology@lemmit.online
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    85
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    20 hours ago

    Of course they just had to make it somewhat contreversial by adopting braves adblock engine; brave’s ceo or whatever funds anti gay lobbyists.

    • garbage_world@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      50 minutes ago

      People when open source:

    • sonofearth@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      11 hours ago

      Bruh everything is funded by some sort of criminal. Jeffery Epstein could have donated to the Mozilla foundation for all we know. You literally cannot tell.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        5 hours ago

        That’s a very convenient position that absolves you from any responsibility to do anything. Convenient, but I don’t think correct.

        • sonofearth@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          2 hours ago

          As u/TBi said in the comments

          People won’t pay for anything, and are then surprised by who actually pays for stuff.

    • const_void@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      44
      ·
      17 hours ago

      Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        55 minutes ago

        Brave is also backed by Peter Thiel.

        First I’ve heard of that. Source?

        • limer@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          39 minutes ago

          His foundation has invested in it per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

      • TBi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        9 hours ago

        People won’t pay for anything, and are then surprised by who actually pays for stuff.

        These developers need to eat too.

      • XLE@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        20
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        14 hours ago

        Just wait till you find out who funds Firefox.

        • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          23
          ·
          11 hours ago

          Could it be… Satan?

          • osanna@lemmy.vg
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            19
            ·
            9 hours ago

            It’s Google. So…… yes.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.26K users / day
  • 8.66K users / week
  • 15.4K users / month
  • 31K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 84.1K subscribers
  • 8.58K Posts
  • 284K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org