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You should actually give it a shot. It’s so much more than that, it’s simply so much more than you could do with a Chrome extension. It has privacy in mind to

by donatj 9y ago

You should actually give it a shot. It’s so much more than that, it’s simply so much more than you could do with a Chrome extension. It has privacy in mind to its core. As an example, in a recent interview Brendan Eich mentioned that they are working on making private browsing tabs go through tor in order to make them truly private.

im3w1l 9y ago
If they do that, they better not forget to enable "http nowhere" in those tabs, or people will be in for a bad surprise.
- solarkraft 9y ago
  They already "upgrade" web pages to https by default.
Larrikin 9y ago
Brave is a start up that is the same thing as a combination of add-ons at its core. I'm sure they have people working on creating a real browser, but personally I'd rather those people work with Firefox if they aren't going to bring any real innovation to the difficult parts of making a browser
- alwillis 9y ago
  As I mentioned previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138524), Brave isn't just a bunch of plugins. I would argue that integrating the blocking of tracking, cryptocurrency mining and fingerprinting scripts in the core of a browser is an innovation. And using zero knowledge proofs and machine learning to learn a user’s browsing habits without leaking personal information (or fingerprinting your browser) is an innovation. So is the integration of a micropayments system and wallet. Also, unlike using traditional ad blocking extensions, you don’t get those annoying popups from websites wining about how they need the ads to generate revenue and asking the user to possibly whitelist their site… while they’re using scripts that track your movement all over the web. Brave is starting where Firefox should have evolved to regarding user privacy and a way to support publishers and content creators without ads as we know them.
solarkraft 9y ago
Was a fun chat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdANNc6sLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdANNc6sLI

by donatj 9y ago

im3w1l 9y ago

If they do that, they better not forget to enable "http nowhere" in those tabs, or people will be in for a bad surprise.

solarkraft 9y ago
They already "upgrade" web pages to https by default.

Larrikin 9y ago

Brave is a start up that is the same thing as a combination of add-ons at its core. I'm sure they have people working on creating a real browser, but personally I'd rather those people work with Firefox if they aren't going to bring any real innovation to the difficult parts of making a browser

alwillis 9y ago
As I mentioned previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138524), Brave isn't just a bunch of plugins. I would argue that integrating the blocking of tracking, cryptocurrency mining and fingerprinting scripts in the core of a browser is an innovation. And using zero knowledge proofs and machine learning to learn a user’s browsing habits without leaking personal information (or fingerprinting your browser) is an innovation. So is the integration of a micropayments system and wallet. Also, unlike using traditional ad blocking extensions, you don’t get those annoying popups from websites wining about how they need the ads to generate revenue and asking the user to possibly whitelist their site… while they’re using scripts that track your movement all over the web. Brave is starting where Firefox should have evolved to regarding user privacy and a way to support publishers and content creators without ads as we know them.

solarkraft 9y ago

Was a fun chat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdANNc6sLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdANNc6sLI