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by antonok 5y ago
> It is the user's agent, and as the user, I want the control. I want to make the decisions. What kind of decisions do you want to be able to make? Unless you're writing all your own filters (in which case, kudos to you!), you&
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by antonok 5y ago
Brave on iOS does inject JS into YouTube and other sites. It uses exactly the same `+js(...)` injections as Brave on desktop and Android, as well as uBlock Origin, which is really helpful. Unfortunately, JS can't solve everything... th
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by antonok 5y ago
> Brave is Chromium-based and suffers from all of the limitations stated in the parent article. Only for extensions. Brave Shields is implemented in natively compiled Rust and C++ (which is even more efficient than WebAssembly), is able
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by antonok 6y ago
There's one important distinction from that link: > remember: very, very, very few users use anti-fingerprinting measures At this point, Brave has 20-million-something monthly users, all of whom have fingerprint randomization enable
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by antonok 6y ago
This is actually exactly what Brave does! Both for Canvas and WebAudio, which is also used for fingerprinting in a similar way. There's more info here if you're curious: https://brave.com/privacy-updates-4/
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by antonok 6y ago
Of course, adblocking has always been and will always be a game of cat-and-mouse. Interesting link. I will say though, Brave's been aggressively pushing for an end to third-party cookies, and if websites are increasingly forced to run
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by antonok 6y ago
Brave's adblocker is all native code, so it's a bit more memory/CPU friendly than uBlock Origin. There's also some enhancements like CNAME uncloaking[1], which only otherwise works in uBlock Origin on Firefox because Chr