Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by upcoming-sesame on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:35PM (#46506736)

I like Brave but the only thing that keeps me from using it on mobile is the lack of extension. That's why Firefox is my daily driver on Android

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by w0ts0n on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:53PM (#46507381)

its coming. https://x.com/brave/status/2008244198060028063

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by Slapping5552 on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:32PM (#46508763)

I recently switched over from FF on Android to Brave. It is much faster, and although extensions are missing, it has a bunch of built in features that covered my use case: - Forced Dark mode - Ad blocking

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by sbt567 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:44AM (#46509122)

Recently I've found Cromite and sure glad I did! Finally I've found my Kiwi browser replacement. It is also feels faster than both Firefox and Brave on Android (though YMMV).

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by avazhi on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:12AM (#46509563)

And here I am on IOS where Brave but not Firefox can use adblockers.

My fucking god I’m not sure enshittification has ever been so widely dispersed. It’s impossible to have any type of unified set up across different OS/devices currently.

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by temp0826 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:08AM (#46510594)

Kagi's Orion on iOS is good, and supports ff/chrome extensions

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by elektor on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:12PM (#46519583)

Kind of, but not really, the ublock origin app doesn't work on Orion. I tried both Kagi + uBlock versus Brave and their built-in ad-block and Brave had a much better performance.

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by cromka on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:05PM (#46520738)

True, none of the extensions I tried actually worked as intended.

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by temp0826 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:19PM (#46519648)

Fwiw Orion uses the actual extensions, not the uBO Lite app (for Safari) that I think you're referring to.

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