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Can you say more? I’m a happy uBlock user — what am I missing by not using Brave?

• movedx 6y ago
  https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/
  • judge2020 6y ago
    In case the OP wanted to know exactly how Brave's adblock is different from uBlock Origin instead of a link to the marketing page with links to other things like cryptocurrencies: Brave's browser claims a speedup over AdBlock plus, but was inspired by UBO, so the performance is fairly similar, but is baked into the browser instead of being an extension. > We therefore rebuilt our ad-blocker taking inspiration from uBlock Origin and Ghostery’s ad-blocker approach. https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/ https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
    • square_usual 6y ago
      It's also written in Rust for performance.
      • scaladev 6y ago
        I use a 6 year old desktop which wasn't that great even when I built it, and a pretty terrible 8 year old laptop, and I don't have any problems with uBlock Origin's performance. I have almost every filter list enabled (except for some regional ones), which results in 153486 network and 173646 cosmetic filters total.
        • sicromoft 6y ago
          Same here. My take away from these replies is that I'm not missing anything by sticking with uBlock.
          • sam0x17 6y ago
            With uBlock origin you're at the whim of the changes Google pushes through to chrome/chromium to nerf it.
            • scaladev 6y ago
              What are you talking about? uBlock Origin is not tied to Chromium, and is not controlled by Google (unlike Brave which is just a fork of Chromium). Jesus, why does everyone these days automatically assumes that everyone else is using Chrome or Chromium? It's almost as crazy as calling Windows a "PC".
              • jorgelgbtq 6y ago
                Sounds like you could use some anger management classes.
              • sam0x17 6y ago
                Google controls the frontend APIs uBlock origin is allowed to use, and they have pushed changes numerous times in the past (covered on HN) to intentionally nerf uBlock origin because it hurts their bottom line.
      • steelbrain 6y ago
        I don't understand this way of thinking. Rust isn't magically fast. You can use most languages to write both performant and lazy code. Also just so you know, Brave isn't "written" in Rust alone, it is a big software with a lot of parts, including but not limited to a rendering engine, a JS VM and a WASM engine. The Rust part at most (unconfirmed) would be the glue that connects them together, and I doubt that's where the bottleneck is for most browsers.
        • vorticalbox 6y ago
          Is that's the new algorithm that made the rust rewrite x69 faster >The new algorithm with optimised set of rules is 69x faster on average than the current engine. https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/ https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
        • square_usual 6y ago
          I meant Brave's adblocker was written in Rust, as the context was about how Brave's adblocker differs from others.
      • jorgelgbtq 6y ago
        LMFAO, it is written in Rust for memory safety, not performance. RING RING, the clue phone is for you.
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• dbsmith83 6y ago
  Forced client updates