TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 16 days agoWaterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenuecyberinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down12
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkWaterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenuecyberinsider.comTheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.mlEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down11·16 days 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-up30arrow-down1·16 days 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-up4arrow-down5·16 days agoStrange to frame it as a financial sustainability decision then.
minus-squarefilt@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up21·15 days 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.