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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by iamnotacrook on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:00AM (#20292518)
"Blocking ads and trackers by default is pretty much essential in 2019."

How is it better than a choice of plug-ins to block them?

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by davidnoble12 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:19AM (#20292878)
I've never understood this either. I think a deep dive into add blocking as we enter web3.0 makes sense. Granularity is missing in the new "browser wars"
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by basch on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:37AM (#20294201)
The article does briefly mention some reasons they perform better than plugins.
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