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Ask HN: Are you using Brave for daily browsing?

16 points by farnsworthy 9y ago

Any thoughts and impressions, concerns (privacy, security, etc.)?

alexnewman 9y ago
Of course!
bishopknight 9y ago
No, it's not very good.
123cfasdf 9y ago
no.
feistypharit 9y ago
I've found it good on mobile, but for desktop osx, it wasn't very good. Lots of broken sites.
partisan 9y ago
I wanted to use it, but there is one "feature" that I don't like: Private tabs share the same data. On safari on iOS, I can log into two different accounts on two different tabs. In Brave, both accounts are logged in at the same time on both tabs.
uzername 9y ago
I use Brave's mobile browser daily, and have for months. It renders like Chrome mobile as far as I can tell, it's at least as fast, and compared to Firefox mobile, I don't need to add another plugin to block ads. I'm not really interested in the whole BAT thing that Brave is trying, and haven't heard much else about privacy or security lately.
fegul 9y ago
I use it almost exclusively on Android. I'll use Brave if I want to keep tabs open for a while and Firefox Focus if it's just a fleeting read.
ezekg 9y ago
I don’t use it for my day to day simply because it doesn’t have my history/autocomplete from Chrome/Safari. I do however use it quite often when cooking because most recipe sites are loaded with ads that either make reading a recipe an annoyance or the site crashes my iPad’s browser 10 minutes in.
deleted 9y ago
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throwaway636 9y ago
on mobile yes, would love to use on mac but plugin are mess right now
wizzerking 9y ago
Vivaldi for me. SRWAre Iron and PaleMoon for backup OS Mint 18.2 x64
digitalether 9y ago
it never works when pulling it from the AUR for arch linux
quantumfoam 9y ago
I use Waterfox on desktop and it's the brand-less FF with all the tracking crap disabled. Hardly ever have to resort to using FF Quantum but when I do, rest assure, there's the song and dance every single time of having to go in about:config and adjust/disable everything. On mobile, Brave with PIA's killswitch enabled for daily browsing but it doesn't matter because of GCM and I can't seem to rid myself entirely of Google.
Intimatik 9y ago
I use it as my sole browser on Android
DavidDoes 9y ago
Still on Safari, myself. Haven't found a private browser that is on both Mac and iOS that will sync bookmarks across the two.
- abusoufiyan 9y ago
  Firefox will
- siquick 9y ago
  Chrome does this.
dabockster 9y ago
For me, the advantages are negated by the fact that it's still using Chrome's rendering engine. So, in my view, it's nothing more than a Chrome reskin.
- alwillis 9y ago
  Except for the zero knowledge proof system for not leaking private browsing information, a cryptocurrency wallet for micro payments for content creators and enabled by default blocking of ads, tracking, malvertising and fingerprinting scripts, yeah, it’s just like Chrome. ;-)
kleer001 9y ago
I tried a couple times, but it was slow as mud.
imauld 9y ago
I'm writing this comment with it now. I use it as my daily driver on my home machine when running in Windows (FF when booted in to Linux). I use Chrome at work because of integrations we have with Chrome. I'm pretty happy with it. I do notice some sites are wonky in it compared to Chrome, most notably medium. However I don't visit those sites very often and when I do if it becomes an issue I just open it in Chrome and then come back to Brave. I have it set as my default browser and there is a notable lag when clicking a link in Slack or another non-browser app for the tab to open in Brave. A minor annoyance but not really an issue for me. I'm content with it.
alwillis 9y ago
Allowing users to control how their browsing history is used for monetization is the future and Brave is way ahead here. I use Brave everyday as a secondary browser, particularly when I need to access sites that run anti-ad blocking scripts which Brave handles better than any other solution I’m aware of. And of course I use Brave to get familiar with the Brave payments system. Keep in mind this is a fairly early beta; version 0.20.29 just came out today; dozens of issues and bugs were fixed: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases

16 points by farnsworthy 9y ago

Any thoughts and impressions, concerns (privacy, security, etc.)?

alexnewman 9y ago

Of course!

bishopknight 9y ago

No, it's not very good.

123cfasdf 9y ago

no.

feistypharit 9y ago

I've found it good on mobile, but for desktop osx, it wasn't very good. Lots of broken sites.

partisan 9y ago

I wanted to use it, but there is one "feature" that I don't like: Private tabs share the same data. On safari on iOS, I can log into two different accounts on two different tabs. In Brave, both accounts are logged in at the same time on both tabs.

uzername 9y ago

I use Brave's mobile browser daily, and have for months. It renders like Chrome mobile as far as I can tell, it's at least as fast, and compared to Firefox mobile, I don't need to add another plugin to block ads. I'm not really interested in the whole BAT thing that Brave is trying, and haven't heard much else about privacy or security lately.

fegul 9y ago

I use it almost exclusively on Android. I'll use Brave if I want to keep tabs open for a while and Firefox Focus if it's just a fleeting read.

ezekg 9y ago

I don’t use it for my day to day simply because it doesn’t have my history/autocomplete from Chrome/Safari. I do however use it quite often when cooking because most recipe sites are loaded with ads that either make reading a recipe an annoyance or the site crashes my iPad’s browser 10 minutes in.

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throwaway636 9y ago

on mobile yes, would love to use on mac but plugin are mess right now

wizzerking 9y ago

Vivaldi for me. SRWAre Iron and PaleMoon for backup OS Mint 18.2 x64

digitalether 9y ago

it never works when pulling it from the AUR for arch linux

quantumfoam 9y ago

I use Waterfox on desktop and it's the brand-less FF with all the tracking crap disabled. Hardly ever have to resort to using FF Quantum but when I do, rest assure, there's the song and dance every single time of having to go in about:config and adjust/disable everything. On mobile, Brave with PIA's killswitch enabled for daily browsing but it doesn't matter because of GCM and I can't seem to rid myself entirely of Google.

Intimatik 9y ago

I use it as my sole browser on Android

DavidDoes 9y ago

Still on Safari, myself. Haven't found a private browser that is on both Mac and iOS that will sync bookmarks across the two.

abusoufiyan 9y ago
Firefox will
siquick 9y ago
Chrome does this.

dabockster 9y ago

For me, the advantages are negated by the fact that it's still using Chrome's rendering engine. So, in my view, it's nothing more than a Chrome reskin.

alwillis 9y ago
Except for the zero knowledge proof system for not leaking private browsing information, a cryptocurrency wallet for micro payments for content creators and enabled by default blocking of ads, tracking, malvertising and fingerprinting scripts, yeah, it’s just like Chrome. ;-)

kleer001 9y ago

I tried a couple times, but it was slow as mud.

imauld 9y ago

I'm writing this comment with it now. I use it as my daily driver on my home machine when running in Windows (FF when booted in to Linux). I use Chrome at work because of integrations we have with Chrome. I'm pretty happy with it. I do notice some sites are wonky in it compared to Chrome, most notably medium. However I don't visit those sites very often and when I do if it becomes an issue I just open it in Chrome and then come back to Brave. I have it set as my default browser and there is a notable lag when clicking a link in Slack or another non-browser app for the tab to open in Brave. A minor annoyance but not really an issue for me. I'm content with it.

alwillis 9y ago

Allowing users to control how their browsing history is used for monetization is the future and Brave is way ahead here. I use Brave everyday as a secondary browser, particularly when I need to access sites that run anti-ad blocking scripts which Brave handles better than any other solution I’m aware of. And of course I use Brave to get familiar with the Brave payments system. Keep in mind this is a fairly early beta; version 0.20.29 just came out today; dozens of issues and bugs were fixed: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/releases