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If I am going to use Chrome/Chromium then I am just going to use Chrome/Chromium and spend 10 more seconds and install ublock. No reason to use a themed Chromiu

by nif2ee 7y ago

If I am going to use Chrome/Chromium then I am just going to use Chrome/Chromium and spend 10 more seconds and install ublock. No reason to use a themed Chromium by a company that literally announces itself to investors (among which Peter Thiel who has obviously personal issues with Google founders) as an advertising platform with a cryptoscam if it didn't work.

turblety 7y ago
I'm not too sure what ublock does entirely, but it seems to focus more on blocking content of the site. Like images, iframes, scripts, etc. Chrome does a lot of calling home. Like, a LOT [1][2]. For example, it checks sites are "safe" (as according to Google's standards) running every website you visit through their servers. Brave tries to disable most of this. 1. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium 2. https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traffic-results/ https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...
- caymanjim 7y ago
  uBlock is the go-to "it just works" ad-blocker for Chrome. Everyone used to use AdBlock Plus, but then they started running a protection racket where advertisers could buy whitelisting.
- lern_too_spel 7y ago
  Brave uses the same safe browsing implementation as Chrome. > running every website you visit through their servers. That's not how it works.
  - turblety 7y ago
    Feel free to add some more facts/sources/links to prove your claim please. Brave proxies requests [1] to Google to ensure they do not get the details of the website you are visiting. 1. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected-URLs https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected...
    - lern_too_spel 7y ago
      The proxy doesn't modify the request. It just hides who it is coming from. That just means Brave knows who it is coming from instead of Google.
- mthoms 7y ago
  >it checks sites are "safe" (as according to Google's standards) running every website you visit through their servers. It only sends a partial hash of the url/domain. It's not feasible to deduce browsing history from the hash.
pilif 7y ago
uBlock will stop working in Chrome as they got to Manifest v3

by nif2ee 7y ago

turblety 7y ago

I'm not too sure what ublock does entirely, but it seems to focus more on blocking content of the site. Like images, iframes, scripts, etc. Chrome does a lot of calling home. Like, a LOT [1][2]. For example, it checks sites are "safe" (as according to Google's standards) running every website you visit through their servers. Brave tries to disable most of this. 1. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium 2. https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traffic-results/ https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...

caymanjim 7y ago
uBlock is the go-to "it just works" ad-blocker for Chrome. Everyone used to use AdBlock Plus, but then they started running a protection racket where advertisers could buy whitelisting.
lern_too_spel 7y ago
Brave uses the same safe browsing implementation as Chrome. > running every website you visit through their servers. That's not how it works.
- turblety 7y ago
  Feel free to add some more facts/sources/links to prove your claim please. Brave proxies requests [1] to Google to ensure they do not get the details of the website you are visiting. 1. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected-URLs https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Proxy-redirected...
  - lern_too_spel 7y ago
    The proxy doesn't modify the request. It just hides who it is coming from. That just means Brave knows who it is coming from instead of Google.
mthoms 7y ago
>it checks sites are "safe" (as according to Google's standards) running every website you visit through their servers. It only sends a partial hash of the url/domain. It's not feasible to deduce browsing history from the hash.

pilif 7y ago

uBlock will stop working in Chrome as they got to Manifest v3