Waterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenue
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Yikes, I'm going to have to move to a different Firefox fork
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.
Still sticking to that?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Well, fuck. I had recently moved from Firefox to this to avoid all their “AI” crap.
Guess I'll have to try Librewolf, then.
Where will you be going now??
Why is this a problem for you? The change is positive.
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.
Why do you think an ad blocker is malware?
:: 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 ::
Yikes. Hopefully moving from WF to Palemoon or otherwise is just as easy as moving from Moz to WF.
There is nothing yikes about this, is there?
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.
Is it yikes enough to quit Firefox entirely?
But Waterfox made almost every ad opt-in, and IDK what makes you want to avoid Brave's code that wouldn't apply 100 times more to Mozilla's.
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.
A built-in ad blocker is better.
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.