Brave was never good: crypto-crap, based on Chromium, and was modifying web pages from the start without your consent. I never understood why people use it.
People use it because it is essentially Chrome with uBlock-Origin built in (I think the developer of uBlock Origin is employed by Brave) and it removes the stupid cookie modals that are on every website. Between running a pi-hole and Brave, I rarely see an advert on a website.
Turning off the "crypto-crap" can be done quite easily (you literally right click on the BAT icon and it is gone) and the new tab ads are removed again with a couple of clicks. I've found it also runs much better than Firefox on older hardware.
The first and last time I tried Brave, it was injecting links (with a pretty golden picture) in each post of reddit (and I'm not talking about changing the referrals). To turn that off I had to look deep into the settings.
Depends, but with this news you will probably not be downgrading too much.
Brave really does have a bunch of very nice features, I particularly enjoyed using them on my phone to download videos from youtube for online listening. Built-in adblocking is very enjoyable too.
Do note that there had been several smaller controversies, including one that 'Honey' got recently into hot water for, which was replacing affiliate links with their own. There is currently an on-going lawsuit with Honey for this.
In honesty, look at the controversies page on wikipedia and decide for yourself, I don't think there is a good or a bad choice here.
In my opinion, if you care about the open web, then you should not be using a Blink (Chromium) based browser like Brave. The less control Google has, the better for the web.
The internet used to be controlled in large by Microsoft. Then it wasn't. It does not have to continue to be controlled by Google in the future. Not using Chromium based browsers is a first step.
Brave is my favorite so far. You can run an HTTP monitor like Charles Proxy or Fiddler in your OS if you think your browser is snooping on you. I do Brave + Ghostery and works great.
Brave was never good: crypto-crap, based on Chromium, and was modifying web pages from the start without your consent. I never understood why people use it.
People use it because it is essentially Chrome with uBlock-Origin built in (I think the developer of uBlock Origin is employed by Brave) and it removes the stupid cookie modals that are on every website. Between running a pi-hole and Brave, I rarely see an advert on a website.
Turning off the "crypto-crap" can be done quite easily (you literally right click on the BAT icon and it is gone) and the new tab ads are removed again with a couple of clicks. I've found it also runs much better than Firefox on older hardware.
> can be done quite easily
The first and last time I tried Brave, it was injecting links (with a pretty golden picture) in each post of reddit (and I'm not talking about changing the referrals). To turn that off I had to look deep into the settings.
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The Youtube adblock always works
Depends, but with this news you will probably not be downgrading too much.
Brave really does have a bunch of very nice features, I particularly enjoyed using them on my phone to download videos from youtube for online listening. Built-in adblocking is very enjoyable too.
Do note that there had been several smaller controversies, including one that 'Honey' got recently into hot water for, which was replacing affiliate links with their own. There is currently an on-going lawsuit with Honey for this.
In honesty, look at the controversies page on wikipedia and decide for yourself, I don't think there is a good or a bad choice here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...
In my opinion, if you care about the open web, then you should not be using a Blink (Chromium) based browser like Brave. The less control Google has, the better for the web.
Well that ship has sailed.
The internet used to be controlled in large by Microsoft. Then it wasn't. It does not have to continue to be controlled by Google in the future. Not using Chromium based browsers is a first step.
I use it. Turning off the ads and annoyances can be done in literally 20 seconds. It has uBlock Origin built in and removes the cookie modal popups.
It has a nice sync feature so my bookmarks / extensions are sync'd. The developer tools are exactly the same as Chromes.
It has some controversies in the past, but generally it has been ok IMO.
Brave is my favorite so far. You can run an HTTP monitor like Charles Proxy or Fiddler in your OS if you think your browser is snooping on you. I do Brave + Ghostery and works great.