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For people who are considering switching away from Chrome - give Brave a try, it's really good. I was a bit reluctant for a while because their branding is wei

by psv1 7y ago

For people who are considering switching away from Chrome - give Brave a try, it's really good. I was a bit reluctant for a while because their branding is weird and there's too much focus on their crypto ad model. But if you switch the crypto stuff off, you have a fork of Chrome that performs just as well and also has a few additional privacy features and isn't linked to your Google account. Highly recommend.

earenndil 7y ago
Or just ungoogled chromium. Brave is bizarre and terrible. The idea of trying to replace ad-tech as it currently exists is great, and I welcome any experimentation thereunto. That said, brave does it wrong, and I don't think it's a good idea to support that; even without using their ad-tech feature, it still gives them mind- and market-share, and propagates their ad system elsewhere.
yalooze 7y ago
Vivaldi is another Chrome fork with a strong focus on privacy. From the original creators of Opera.
- computerfriend 7y ago
  Vivaldi is non-free and closed source.
anon_alchemist 7y ago
Brave blocks all ads and provides its own "ad platform" which basically means that they curate what ads you will see. I fail to see how their model could fix what is wrong with facebook or google.
- psv1 7y ago
  Their ad model is what gets discussed every time Brave comes up and it's irrelevant to me - I block all ads myself regardless of the browser. My point is that if you switch ads off in Brave, you end up with a really good browsing experience, better than Chrome + adblock or Firefox + adblock.
anthk 7y ago
Get Falkon, much better.
kgwxd 7y ago
For me, a browser has to support uBlock Origin, as it works today. I don't want the browser vendor deciding how ads and trackers get blocked, it's a conflict of interest and it's never been done better than uBO anyway. Won't all chromium based browser break proper ad/tracker blocking once that manifest v3 thing happens?
- hydgv 7y ago
  Brave said they wouldn't. Who knows. I switched and I'm liking it a lot thus far, but if they implement manifest v3, all that will remain of me will be a puff of smoke

by psv1 7y ago

earenndil 7y ago

Or just ungoogled chromium. Brave is bizarre and terrible. The idea of trying to replace ad-tech as it currently exists is great, and I welcome any experimentation thereunto. That said, brave does it wrong, and I don't think it's a good idea to support that; even without using their ad-tech feature, it still gives them mind- and market-share, and propagates their ad system elsewhere.

yalooze 7y ago

Vivaldi is another Chrome fork with a strong focus on privacy. From the original creators of Opera.

computerfriend 7y ago
Vivaldi is non-free and closed source.

anon_alchemist 7y ago

Brave blocks all ads and provides its own "ad platform" which basically means that they curate what ads you will see. I fail to see how their model could fix what is wrong with facebook or google.

psv1 7y ago
Their ad model is what gets discussed every time Brave comes up and it's irrelevant to me - I block all ads myself regardless of the browser. My point is that if you switch ads off in Brave, you end up with a really good browsing experience, better than Chrome + adblock or Firefox + adblock.

anthk 7y ago

Get Falkon, much better.

kgwxd 7y ago

For me, a browser has to support uBlock Origin, as it works today. I don't want the browser vendor deciding how ads and trackers get blocked, it's a conflict of interest and it's never been done better than uBO anyway. Won't all chromium based browser break proper ad/tracker blocking once that manifest v3 thing happens?

hydgv 7y ago
Brave said they wouldn't. Who knows. I switched and I'm liking it a lot thus far, but if they implement manifest v3, all that will remain of me will be a puff of smoke