If we are going to eschew open source projects from shitty tech companies, then there’s a pretty long list.
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"Quietly™" by posting about it beforehand everywhere they could.
How Brave
Much fox,
very lion.
Cool.
Still sticking with uBlock and SponsorBlock (skips all the "this video was sponsored by" segments on YouTube).
I wish SponsorBlock and DeArrow were integrated into Invidious, like with Piped.
Freetube has integrated sponsor block (might have to enable it in the settings first). I've generally been very happy with the Freetube flatpak, although there have been times when YouTube actively fought against third parties where Freetube did not work for a month.
Add DeArrow in there as well (anti-clickbait)
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a default-disabled prototype
No wonder it didn't show up in normal/enduser release notes.
This article suggests you have to disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection to test it. Does it replace that entire system with an equivalent system?
I'll wait until it's stable and productive.
That's cool, take the good part of Brave, leave behind the villainous CEO and dodgy crypto scams
I used brave for a while. Recently switched to zen browser to try some better tab management. But despite all braves issues, it’s ad/tracker blocking was always very good imo. I think it will be a good addition to Firefox.
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Why did they not just set ublock as a default installed plugin?
Because the performance of brave lib is a little better since it doesn't go through the plugin API
So should you use this now? Or keep uBlock origin? Or enable both for maximum protection?
it's up to you which one you wanna use, I'll keep using uBlock origin (both is overkill, you only need one for blocking ads)
I guess my question is more, is the “brave” one as good as uBlock? Or does it miss some things? Sounds like performance is better.
My only thought about using both would be if the “brave” version is more performant, but less protective, it could quickly get rid of most of the ads, and let uBlock get the rest, reducing how many are filtered at greater performance cost. But I’m sure that’s based on a gross misunderstanding of how it all works.
Is it? Like YouTube is less laggy with that? Thats the only situation where i see actual delays by adblocking
I use brave as my YouTube browser and it does seem to perform better than Firefox with unlock. There's frequently weird delays with Firefox where the ads get through a little and are then blocked(admittedly I probably only update it like once a month). I don't get that with Brave.
Yes, it is. No, the delays on Youtube don't come from the performance of the adblocking code, so you won't notice many differences. But more efficient adblocking is good for everyone - noticeably more so on devices with batteries, but still helpful for everyone.
How incredible i think I’ll start using Firefox again as it’s becoming better i just wish they would create their own email service already.
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