Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.
uBlock Origin is another engine.
Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75%
Submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
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6nk06@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 2 days ago
I'm not sure how it compares to Brave but I did some benchmarks and found uBO to use significantly less RAM than alternatives like AdGuard. Nevermind that it's more trustworthy by far than basically all the alternatives...
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Brave is/was funded by Peter Theil and Brandon Eich is an advisor for Palantir. Hard pass.
ksigley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep. Stay away from Brave.
smeg@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Alternative spyware is no better than Google spyware
MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So, I’m guessing they coded it originally with an LLM, and then used more LLMs to optimize and fix the shit from the first pass.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nice.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 days ago
… but leaving its scamminess levels unchanged
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 2 days ago
Tbh even apart from the scams, Brave is such a crappy UX compared to Firefox/LibreWolf/IronFox that I wouldn't use it regardless. Idk why people hype this garbage
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
Brave is the only browser I’m aware of that allows you to easily toggle cookies on and off on a per-site basis. This seems like an obvious and important privacy feature but no one else offers it.