Waterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenue
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I actually appreciate the openness. As long as it is openly communicated and optional (but yes... its opt-out instead opt-in), I do not mind that much.
Hmmm not keen on letting Brave censor the web for me. And why the hell would Brave give Waterfox money if there's no telemetry?
Idgaf about allowing search ads by default on their search partner, whatever fine.
But the Brave part smells really really bad, wasn't their ad blocker inserting ads of its own?
read the article. they're using brave's open source adblock library; brave isn't paying them to do this.
Strange to frame it as a financial sustainability decision then.
The financial decision part is regarding search ads with Startpage. Again, read the article.
Brave's adblockers is subpar in comparison to uBlock Origin and their tool set. It is not only about block lists.