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evilpietoday at 7:28 AM1 replyview on HN

> The Firefox team is experimenting with ways to improve the built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection feature in Firefox. This is one of the libraries we're going to experiment with.

> - We are not, and have no plans to abandon MV2 extensions. This will ensure certain types of add-ons, like ad-blockers, continue to work best in Firefox.

> - Firefox supports several ad-blockers as add-ons on Desktop and Android, including uBlock Origin.

> - We are not bundling Brave's ad-blocking system, we're testing one of their open source Rust components to improve how Firefox processes tracker lists.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1sttf82/firefox_wi...

This is what the official Firefox account had to say when this came up on reddit.


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lxgrtoday at 8:09 AM

> This will ensure certain types of add-ons, like ad-blockers, continue to work best in Firefox.

Oof, so even people that should really know better are now equating MV3 with "no more ad blocking"? I think at this point the entire thing just needs to be renamed.

(Only Chrome removed the request blocking API from their MV3 implementation; Firefox did not.)

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