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Waterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenue (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] catscape@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

read the article. they're using brave's open source adblock library; brave isn't paying them to do this.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Strange to frame it as a financial sustainability decision then.

[–] filt@thelemmy.club 19 points 4 weeks ago

The financial decision part is regarding search ads with Startpage. Again, read the article.