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

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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