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[–] XLE@piefed.social 275 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (26 children)

I said it for Waterfox and I'm gonna say it again for Firefox: this is good. At worst, it's just fine (Mozilla just uses it internally to replace or supplement its old and incomplete Tracker Blocking system, which never gets the same scrutiny).

The biggest difference between Firefox and Waterfox in implementation is the WaterFox developers noticed this FF change early, and committed to providing full-fledged ad blocking out of the box, which is great news for users.

A few more reasons this is good:

  1. Rust is faster than JavaScript
  2. Native functionality is faster than an extension
  3. Actual ad blocking is something Firefox users have been begging Mozilla to do
[–] zewm@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Using technology from a known crypto scamming developer is not good.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 42 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Using entirely unrelated ad blocking technology is bad for what reason?

You can feel free to moralize, but be consistent: Mozilla bought an NFT company to integrate their code into Firefox, and that's not the only skeleton in their closet.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

we were shocked and disappointed by the amount of fraud in crypto and NFT

That sounds so funny, somehow

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