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I cannot recommend Brave due to the autosuggestions-for-profit feature. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842 https://news.ycombin

I cannot recommend Brave due to the autosuggestions-for-profit feature. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842 You can install uBlock Origin in 10 seconds from the GitHub release page (see previous link shared). This is vastly better than anything I've seen for ad-blocking.

fastball 6y ago
An auto-suggestion is not a redirect. Also that just makes me trust them more – they are the only browser vendor that are trying to find business models that don't involve selling my data or selling out to someone who does.
- niftylettuce 6y ago
  The issue is that nothing is as pure as ungoogled-chromium is right now. I've also felt that Brave was slow, and not best for developers. As a power user I'm very biased, so Brave may work better for folks that are not as technically skilled and have no idea how to install from GitHub/brew/etc. Edit: I feel it is slow because it has extra bloat added. Like I said, take my comments here with a grain of salt because I'm a very biased power user. I respect the efforts of these developers regardless of what project it is, the focus on privacy and building something different is truly awesome.
  - fastball 6y ago
    Brave is chromium under the hood. Not really sure why you think it would be slower than ungoogled-chromium. Ditto for developer / power-user experience – it's still chromium. Just with an ad-blocker written in Rust built-in and some other features.
  - topspin 6y ago
    > I've also felt Data or stop spreading FUD. There is nothing "slow" about Brave.
cambalache 6y ago
Wow, I did not know about that. Between this and the original post it seems no matter what every company ends up selling its soul to the devil.
- niftylettuce 6y ago
  Through better tech and with better developer usability, we can conquer these monopolistic false promises. Our work with the Lad framework is instrumental.
- pschastain 6y ago
  https://github.com/braver-browser/ https://github.com/braver-browser/ A Brave fork meant to address this issue. Time will tell.
pschastain 6y ago
Braver (https://github.com/braver-browser/ https://github.com/braver-browser/) is a Brave fork meant to address this and other issues.

fastball 6y ago

An auto-suggestion is not a redirect. Also that just makes me trust them more – they are the only browser vendor that are trying to find business models that don't involve selling my data or selling out to someone who does.

niftylettuce 6y ago
The issue is that nothing is as pure as ungoogled-chromium is right now. I've also felt that Brave was slow, and not best for developers. As a power user I'm very biased, so Brave may work better for folks that are not as technically skilled and have no idea how to install from GitHub/brew/etc. Edit: I feel it is slow because it has extra bloat added. Like I said, take my comments here with a grain of salt because I'm a very biased power user. I respect the efforts of these developers regardless of what project it is, the focus on privacy and building something different is truly awesome.
- fastball 6y ago
  Brave is chromium under the hood. Not really sure why you think it would be slower than ungoogled-chromium. Ditto for developer / power-user experience – it's still chromium. Just with an ad-blocker written in Rust built-in and some other features.
- topspin 6y ago
  > I've also felt Data or stop spreading FUD. There is nothing "slow" about Brave.

cambalache 6y ago

Wow, I did not know about that. Between this and the original post it seems no matter what every company ends up selling its soul to the devil.

niftylettuce 6y ago
Through better tech and with better developer usability, we can conquer these monopolistic false promises. Our work with the Lad framework is instrumental.
pschastain 6y ago
https://github.com/braver-browser/ https://github.com/braver-browser/ A Brave fork meant to address this issue. Time will tell.

pschastain 6y ago

Braver (https://github.com/braver-browser/ https://github.com/braver-browser/) is a Brave fork meant to address this and other issues.