If you want ads-blocking, and don't like Firefox, just use Chrome, or Safari. Chrome + Pi-hole, or NextDNS, or Adguard DNS is just as good as Brave on Android. And Safari on iOS w/ Wipr is much better. Mobile Vivaldi & Edge have integrated ads blockers too, better than Brave's.
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In case you're wondering how the value proposition can be to block ads, without being good at blocking ads, that's b/c the actual value proposition is the preservation of "privacy". An advertising company is promising to protect your privacy
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Antwort an @alexelcu
Brave's business has always been about fixing advertising rather than completely blocking it, Brendan Eich was always very clear. Completely blocking advertising is not a solution unless you want to pay $10 a month for email like the old days at least if majority starts doing it.
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Antwort an @mdedetrich
I pay $4 / month for a Fastmail account, family accounts would be cheaper. When a service gets more popular, prices go down, not up. I want nothing less but to block all ads. Whether that's a solution or not for businesses, it isn't my problem, I'm not a charity.
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Antwort an @alexelcu @mdedetrich
Similarly, piracy wasn't stopped by feelings of goodwill towards businesses, rather it still exists, while businesses evolved methods to cope, such as paid streaming, which is more convenient. And this time people even have the moral high ground.
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Antwort an @alexelcu @mdedetrich
You know how the imoral behavior of companies gets excused due to shareholder need to make money? Similarly the survival of businesses isn't a consumer problem. And you'd think consumers willv somehow decide it's for their own good. No they won't.
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Antwort an @alexelcu @mdedetrich
I believe that once people find a better ads blocker, they'll switch. B/c most don't want any ads, even if some express guilt. uBlock Origin has been growing, it has no company behind that can be attacked or bought. The industry is terrified by it, while Adblock Plus is an ally.
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Antwort an @alexelcu @mdedetrich
Manifest V3 looks likely to cripple uBO: https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/googles_browser_extension_platform_rewrite/ … — another reason for built-into-browser protection. For more on what Brave does, see the latest in our ongoing series at https://brave.com/privacy-updates-6/ …. DNS blocking is not enough these days, trackers invaded 1st parties.
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Antwort an @BrendanEich @mdedetrich
I know of Manifest v3, IMO Google is clearly trying to kill uBO. But it will continue to work in Firefox. Pi-hole / NextDNS can protect against CNAME cloaking. I agree that DNS blocking isn't enough, as it can't block individual scripts on first-party domains.
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Antwort an @alexelcu @BrendanEich
But thats the issue, protecting privacy is not a first class citizen in Firefox (it requires extensions) and Firefox also has a massive conflict of interest due to the majority of their funding coming from a deal with Google.
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Firefox has built-in "Tracking Protection", blocking trackers by default from the Disconnect list. This list is smaller than EasyList / EasyPrivacy, but fairly effective for getting rid of the most egregious actors, esp in strict mode. New Firefox for Android also advertised uBO.
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