Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by Michaell » 2026-05-03, 21:18

The adblocker in Waterfox is only good for lists. No toolbar dropdown panel choices. Lists are the least important part for me.
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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-03, 21:23

gabrgv wrote:
2026-05-03, 20:58
For those wondering, looks like Waterfox took this road before Firefox.
If Waterfox has a native adblocker and it is coming, I'd rather use and trust Watefox's native adblocker than Firefox's native adblocker when "push comes to shove" if I am stuck with Manifest 3.

For me, I "need" to know only one thing. And that is if Waterfox's native adblocker will block all of those awful irrelevant ads in YouTube because I sure do not trust Firefox's native adblocker since Mozilla lies in the same bed with Google (money wise).
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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by Gemmaugr » 2026-05-03, 21:27

Night Wing wrote:
2026-05-03, 21:23
gabrgv wrote:
2026-05-03, 20:58
For those wondering, looks like Waterfox took this road before Firefox.
If Waterfox has a native adblocker and it is coming, I'd rather use and trust Watefox's native adblocker than Firefox's native adblocker when "push comes to shove" if I am stuck with Manifest 3.

For me, I "need" to know only one thing. And that is if Waterfox's native adblocker will block all of those awful irrelevant ads in YouTube because I sure do not trust Firefox's native adblocker since Mozilla lies in the same bed with Google (money wise).
It's the same adblocker sadly, and Waterfox gets their money from Startpage (of System1's ad platform company), which is a google search frontend.
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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by Night Wing » 2026-05-03, 21:47

Gemmaugr wrote:
2026-05-03, 21:27
It's the same adblocker sadly, and Waterfox gets their money from Startpage (of System1's ad platform company), which is a google search frontend.
Oh woe is me! :o But one must look on the bright side. :) Pale Moon is my daily driver. :D Not Waterfox. So I just might escape the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (along with the fire lit torches and pitchforks) to escape the evil clutches of Manifest 3 by continuing to use my trusty Pale Moon. :twisted:
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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by gabrgv » 2026-05-04, 15:48

Gemmaugr wrote:
2026-05-03, 21:07
Not sure about that.
This is from the Gitbug issue I linked:
@MrAlex94 wrote:I started development back in January, and by happy coincidence Mozilla did a better job of integrating the crate in Bug 2013888, so I could piggyback off of that work.

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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by Gemmaugr » 2026-05-04, 18:17

gabrgv wrote:
2026-05-04, 15:48
Gemmaugr wrote:
2026-05-03, 21:07
Not sure about that.
This is from the Gitbug issue I linked:
@MrAlex94 wrote:I started development back in January, and by happy coincidence Mozilla did a better job of integrating the crate in Bug 2013888, so I could piggyback off of that work.
Fair enough.
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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by UCyborg » 2026-05-04, 20:32

Off-topic:
gabrgv wrote:
2026-05-03, 16:59
I was kind of foreseeing this scenario when I amicably remarked to the devs here how it could be hard for a "normal" PC user (not you or me) to find and install an ad blocker for Pale Moon or Basilisk. Got my mouth shut real quick then. Obviously, I was misinterpreted, partially, I think, because I don't know how to express myself in english very well, and because people have a hard time reading nowadays.
I saw that. I don't see it as being expressed badly (quite the opposite), but there is a recurring pattern in this modern society that if your expression isn't sanitized, that is, overly politically correct and devoid of slight hint of being upset, anger, aggression etc. and filtered to be overall positive, you will be censored. My only thought regarding this fact: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me! But, alas, it is what it is...

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That field is for adding search keywords so that people don't run into the exact problem gabrgv faced, not petty rivalry.
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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by gabrgv » 2026-05-09, 19:58

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Thanks. And, yeah, I agree with you. People are more touchy nowadays, specially online.

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Re: Firefox 149 bundles content-blocking engine adblock-rust

Post by moonbat » 2026-05-10, 00:26

UCyborg wrote:
2026-05-04, 20:32
For the record, regarding this particular remark, I'm not responsible for the listing of uBO on PM's add-ons site. I merely brought up the copy of modified uBO that I'm using at one point on this forum, never pursued the possibility of it being linked on the add-ons' site, but, it was someone else's idea, so it ended up there. Someone around these parts obviously is (or was?) resentful of gorhill. Not me, though.
Apologies. Now after seeing this I've instantly realized who it likely was, and that person isn't around here on the forum anymore.
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