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I want to like Brave, but I just can't get past the planned ads, the crypto stuff, how memory intensive chromium is, and, well, I really like Firefox. My brows
by androidgirl 8y ago
I want to like Brave, but I just can't get past the planned ads, the crypto stuff, how memory intensive chromium is, and, well, I really like Firefox.
My browser is for reading docs, for JS/WASM development, and the occasional Gmail or HN visit, so maybe I'm not their target market.
- codezero 8y agoWhat is “the crypto stuff”?
- wewake 8y agoBrave has introduced BAT (Basic Attention Token), a token for a decentralized ad exchange. Give their interesting white paper [0] a read. [0] https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePaper-4.pdf https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePape...
- codezero 8y agoThanks for the info, I’ll check it out!
- BrendanEich 8y agoAnything above baseline blocking, protection against fingerprinting, etc., is optional and must remain so or our core users would bolt. So please feel welcome to use in default mode. BTW, chromium bloat rep in part comes from Chrome not blocking ads and tracking well. Extensions must use JS and so use more memory. Brave uses C++ in the network threads of the browser process.
- 18pfsmt 8y agoAre these C++-based browser improvements being made public? Is this a library?
- BrendanEich 8y agoAll client source is open under https://github.com/brave/ https://github.com/brave/.
- androidgirl 8y agoHmm, perhaps I've been a bit unfair. Looks like I will have to give Brave another shot soon! Thank you!