Firefox 149 Quietly Integrates Brave's Open-Source Adblock Engine
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Summary
Firefox 149 quietly integrated Brave's open-source Rust-based ad and tracker blocking engine (adblock-rust) without mentioning it in the release notes. The VP of Privacy and Security at Brave highlighted this omission in a blog post, noting that while Firefox 149's release notes touted features like a built-in VPN, Split View, and XDG portal file picker, the integration of Brave's adblock engine went unmentioned.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledFirefox has Some Brave in it now
The browser now ships adblock-rust, Brave's open source Rust-based ad and tracker blocking
An interesting addition had gone mostly unnoticed until now
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