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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by apparent on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:01PM (#46506373)
Funny that the iOS update notes don't mention this at all:

> in this release:

> Other enhancements, stability improvements, and security updates

No mention of efficiency, or adblocking whatsoever!

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by mywittyname on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:03PM (#46506385)
Is the iOS version of Brave actually the same codebase? My understanding is that all browsers on iOS have to wrap Safari, which would explain the release notes. But I could be wrong here, as I don't develop for iOS.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by skaul on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:00PM (#46506981)
We use the same adblocking engine (adblock-rust) on all platforms, including iOS, hence the shared memory savings.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by Rendello on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:07PM (#46506447)
The article says:

> The upgrade represents roughly 45 MB of memory savings for the Brave browser on every platform (Android, iOS and desktop) by default

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