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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by bastawhiz on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:15PM (#46508661)
Linux distros won't host the code for the commercial bits. It doesn't matter if you can hide it, it's the fact that it's there at all
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by DaSHacka on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:52AM (#46509454)
Yet they have no issue with Mozilla?
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by drnick1 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:55PM (#46521106)
Mozilla does not have commercial bits. They do receive money from Google to be the default search engine, and the binaries they build report telemetry, but the versions found in Linux repos often either patch out the telemetry or disable it.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by WackyFighter on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:46AM (#46510823)
Most distros have a way of installing proprietary software via enabling additional repos after install.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by bastawhiz on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:42AM (#46555026)
And you can do that if you want with Brave
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