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I welcome more competition in this space, especially ones that operate at a different abstraction level than others, but this one doesnt look active anymore. I
by basch 7y ago
I welcome more competition in this space, especially ones that operate at a different abstraction level than others, but this one doesnt look active anymore.
I know brave isnt the most popular product / business model, but their rust reimplementation of the Adblock Plus syntax, a rewrite of uBlock Origins and Cliqz, might hopefully be a valuable contribution to the open source world.
Regardless of how people feel about the ethics of ad blocking, being able to dynamically block parts of websites has become as or more important than anti-virus, for safety.
https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/ https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
Although it will make troubleshooting a nightmare, necessary protection at multiple levels of the stack is becoming a reality. NextDNS (or quad9, pihole, adguard) combined with Brave (or uBlock Origin, Cliqz) in combination are going to keep people safer, despite the shortcomings of both dns based and active page filters and parsing.
It would be nice to be able to manage and maintain filter list configurations across all browsers, devices, and dns. Some sort of central management that updates and propagates NextDNS, Brave, uBlock Origin, uBlock Matrix, and Dark Reader. uBlock Matrix and Dark Reader are especially cumbersome to use between Chrome and Firefox on different devices.
- spking 7y ago> I know brave isnt the most popular product / business model Curious what you mean by this. Are BATs unpopular or is there some other issue with the browser itself?
- mnm1 7y agoMany people don't like ad blockers that let in ads. That's the obvious issue with the brave browser. The shocking thing to me is that some people tolerate this behavior. I'll take an ad blocker that blocks all ads myself, not one coming from the ad industry itself. Nowadays, this applies to chrome and safari too if they've gotten rid of their old plugin apis that enabled ublock (hard to keep track of spyware features).
- freeone3000 7y agoDo you know of any website that accepts them? I've seen them on some exchanges, but the current procedure is to sell them directly. Who's buying them (besides speculators)?
- rglullis 7y agoraises hand I am working on a matrix/xmpp/mastodon paid hosting, which I am racing to get the Ethereum token payment gateway finished by the end of the month and planning to accept BAT/DAI/ETH.