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Waterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenue (cyberinsider.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Yikes, I'm going to have to move to a different Firefox fork

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I'd stay away from anything Brave if possible. It may be open source, but it's run by a bigot who funds political causes that strip people of their rights.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Seems to be a hidden opt-in option at this time. Mozilla is not a role model for great behavior anyway, given their defending of Google in court driven by their partnership deal.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Are you still planning on switching away from a browser that was just going to implement built-in Firefox functionality responsibly and openly? And if so, what are you going to switch to?

    I would be surprised if any fork developer promised to remove a free, positive feature.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    For a browser that includes it opt-in, there's no supporting of Brave if it's kept disabled. Then if there's no wide adoption, Mozilla may remove the code altogether. Alternatively, it may choose not to pull commits from the original repo, making it completely independent from the project run by a bigot. We'll see.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why?

    If you're concerned about anything that has even a snippet of code from an unethical company, you can't use any Firefox derivative.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's more about the fact that I already have an adblocker and I specifically have it turned off in a few websites to support those websites, not the browser I'm using to open those websites

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    I don't see any reason to assume the ad blocker built into Waterfox won't allow you to do the exact same thing... Or you can just disable it entirely, because it doesn't actually have an incentive to make you use it.

    Not sure why that would cause you to run away from Waterfox

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    • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Yikes. Hopefully moving from WF to Palemoon or otherwise is just as easy as moving from Moz to WF.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    There is nothing yikes about this, is there?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Anything to do with Brave is yikes, and any step towards "opt out" advertising is yikes. Firefox went from "no bullshit" to "one opt out setting" to "30 opt out settings". There's always a first step. The only real reason to use Waterfox over Firefox in the first place is because you don't want to have to find and whack all the opt-outs - Firefox with the right config offers every advantage WF does.

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    • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    :: they will include that adblock engine, which will allow Startpage text ads because they sponsor. a switch will turn it off, and nothing else, including other adblockers is affected ::

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Well, fuck. I had recently moved from Firefox to this to avoid all their “AI” crap.

    Guess I'll have to try Librewolf, then.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why is this a problem for you? The change is positive.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Which change? Mozilla shoving LLM bullshit into their browser, or Waterfox infecting their users' machines with Brave's malware?

    Both are more than enough to blacklist those browsers and tag them as malware.

    Nothing positive about this, just further enshittification.

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    • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Fitting name then, since it douses the fire even more. But that aside, if Waterfox then contributes back to Gecko and SpiderMonkey as a result.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    A built-in ad blocker is better.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Nice of WaterFox to add something Firefox community members have been requesting for years!

    This isn't exactly identical to the extension, but hopefully it'll be better optimized to run in the browser itself. That's good on desktop devices, but it'll be an even bigger deal on mobile, because Firefox isn't exactly well-optimized with its addon ecosystem.

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