Feature Request: Built-in adblocker

[GuiMar10]

What feature would you like to see?

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What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Additional context

No response

[Donnnno]

Shipping it with uBlock Origin wouldn't be a bad idea :)

[mayemu]

he said hes working on a built in one based on ghostery in a reddit comment sometime earlier

[cyrneko]

I think uBlock Origin would be optimal.

Highly supported, most efficient on Firefox, popular and customizable. There's a reason it's the first choice in LibreWolf and alike.

[mayemu]

yea, mullvad does as well. i definitely agree. ublock is miles ahead of ghostery in its content blocking abilities and really is an undisputed requirement to browse the web safe and privately. even brave users will disable brave shield for it, so i think developing a ghostery based adblock would be efforts better towards other features

[cyrneko]

I believe Arc also bundles uBlock Origin, so that's another browser to add to the list of references.

[mayemu]

ghostery is also redundant with firefox's total cookie protection.

arkenfox has a full guide to necessary and redundant extensions here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother and they are kind of the utmost authority on firefox browser security. ghostery is also listed under redundant extensions as is most "privacy" extensions because ublock literally does everything they all do but miles better. bundling with ublock and maybe skip redirect would be best for user experience imo!

[mauro-balades]

Does Arc bundle uBlock?

[GuiMar10]

Ye

[mauro-balades]

Doesn't it have to comply with Manifest Version 3?

[GuiMar10]

Not for now, but they're working on a native alternative to uBlock

[freebritney132]

There's no reason to make a native ad blocker since ublock origin is blazing based, and if another adblocker is chosen I will dox all the developers and harass them for the next 25 years as a prank.

[cyrneko]

There's no reason to make a native ad blocker since ublock origin is blazing based, and if another adblocker is chosen I will dox all the developers and harass them for the next 25 years as a prank.

that's the most compressed cringe I've ever read on GitHub

[mauro-balades]

There's no reason to make a native ad blocker since ublock origin is blazing based, and if another adblocker is chosen I will dox all the developers and harass them for the next 25 years as a prank.

I've decided to go for Firefox's built in adblocker 😬

[cyrneko]

Firefox's built-in one?

Are you simply extending the tracker protection with new lists that also block ads? 🤔

[mauro-balades]

This issue should be discussed further. You can view and continue the discussion here: #888

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