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Or you can just install uBlock Origin. I don't see what Brave brings to the table.

by BurningCycles 8y ago

nostrademons 8y ago
I had AdBlock rather than uBlock Origin for Chrome, but my experience with it was that it had odd stability issues (eg. certain PDFs would crash the tab, so would a certain window.open call on a niche site I frequent, or accessing a TurboTax download took me to TurboTax's internal login page for their Box account) and many news sites have counter-AdBlock pages where they put up an annoying popup if they detect you're using AdBlock. Not sure if you get those with uBlock Origin, but they don't show up on Brave.
profalseidol 8y ago
I suggest reading this comment from one of the dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972072
- warkdarrior 8y ago
  > We're not simply replacing ads. We're rescuing an industry. That's nice, but as a user I have no interest in rescuing the ad industry. The sooner it dies, the better.
Kurtz79 8y ago
Brave is mostly used as a mobile browser. It is far more practical to download an already adblock-included brower than having to mess with extensions on mobile. I installed it soon after switching to Android from iOS and I have no complaints, it is fast and it just works.
- snaky 8y ago
  > It is far more practical to download an already adblock-included brower than having to mess with extensions on mobile You don't need to "opt in to receiving ads sold by Brave Software in place of the blocked ads" for that. https://www.bromite.org/fdroid https://www.bromite.org/fdroid
  - etse 8y ago
    It's less seamless and user-friendly to have to install F-droid and deal with whatever OS permissions are needed before installing Bromite. The earlier concern about data sharing and privacy by advertising companies is not an identical problem to users being served ads.

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Or you can just install uBlock Origin. I don't see what Brave brings to the table.

by BurningCycles 8y ago

Or you can just install uBlock Origin. I don't see what Brave brings to the table.

nostrademons 8y ago
I had AdBlock rather than uBlock Origin for Chrome, but my experience with it was that it had odd stability issues (eg. certain PDFs would crash the tab, so would a certain window.open call on a niche site I frequent, or accessing a TurboTax download took me to TurboTax's internal login page for their Box account) and many news sites have counter-AdBlock pages where they put up an annoying popup if they detect you're using AdBlock. Not sure if you get those with uBlock Origin, but they don't show up on Brave.
profalseidol 8y ago
I suggest reading this comment from one of the dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972072
- warkdarrior 8y ago
  > We're not simply replacing ads. We're rescuing an industry. That's nice, but as a user I have no interest in rescuing the ad industry. The sooner it dies, the better.
Kurtz79 8y ago
Brave is mostly used as a mobile browser. It is far more practical to download an already adblock-included brower than having to mess with extensions on mobile. I installed it soon after switching to Android from iOS and I have no complaints, it is fast and it just works.
- snaky 8y ago
  > It is far more practical to download an already adblock-included brower than having to mess with extensions on mobile You don't need to "opt in to receiving ads sold by Brave Software in place of the blocked ads" for that. https://www.bromite.org/fdroid https://www.bromite.org/fdroid
  - etse 8y ago
    It's less seamless and user-friendly to have to install F-droid and deal with whatever OS permissions are needed before installing Bromite. The earlier concern about data sharing and privacy by advertising companies is not an identical problem to users being served ads.