TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoWaterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenuecyberinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWaterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenuecyberinsider.comTheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square10linkfedilinkcross-posted to: firefox@lemmy.world
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoHmmm 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?
minus-squarecatscape@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoread the article. they’re using brave’s open source adblock library; brave isn’t paying them to do this.
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoStrange to frame it as a financial sustainability decision then.
minus-squarefilt@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThe financial decision part is regarding search ads with Startpage. Again, read the article.
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.