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Just use Brave Browser. https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/ It's like de-Googled Chrome, as it's based on the same Open Source Chromium browser, has all of t

Just use Brave Browser. https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/ It's like de-Googled Chrome, as it's based on the same Open Source Chromium browser, has all of the ad-blocking and anti-fingerprint tools built in, and all of the Google taken out. You can also run popular browser extensions published for Chrome, but you don't need to worry about ad blocking, as Brave has you covered by default. It also blocks YouTube ads effectively, by default. There's nothing you have to do to make this work.

eclecticfrank 1y ago
Brave wants to replace "bad" ads from third parties with their own "good" ads.[1] They have also in the past been caught adding their own referral codes to crypto transaction URLs pasted into their browser. [2] [1] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurrency-with-the-brave-browser https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurre... [2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-...
- dartharva 1y ago
  You can disable Brave Shields and just use classic uBO (which Brave supports) instead.
- esskay 1y ago
  I'm not sure trying to bad mouth it by bringing up a 5+ year old long fixed thing is the right way to go about making a point. Heck if we're doing that theres vastly more "wrong" over at Mozilla and Google to complain about in that timeframe. Aa of right now Brave has two "features" that you can disable - the crypto thing and a vpn advert. Once those are off, they are off. You don't see them anymore, they aren't sitting in the background running, and they aren't calling home. It's no different to Mozilla's constant and blatant attempts to reactivate telemetry data in Firefox updates despite opting out - I'd argue that's a bigger offence.
- midnitewarrior 1y ago
  Yeah, this seems a bit disingenuous given the nature of, and the time since that issue existed. I did their ads, I made hundreds of dollars leaving them on in the early days. I value my attention more so I've shut them off.

eclecticfrank 1y ago

Brave wants to replace "bad" ads from third parties with their own "good" ads.[1] They have also in the past been caught adding their own referral codes to crypto transaction URLs pasted into their browser. [2] [1] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurrency-with-the-brave-browser https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurre... [2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-...

dartharva 1y ago
You can disable Brave Shields and just use classic uBO (which Brave supports) instead.
esskay 1y ago
I'm not sure trying to bad mouth it by bringing up a 5+ year old long fixed thing is the right way to go about making a point. Heck if we're doing that theres vastly more "wrong" over at Mozilla and Google to complain about in that timeframe. Aa of right now Brave has two "features" that you can disable - the crypto thing and a vpn advert. Once those are off, they are off. You don't see them anymore, they aren't sitting in the background running, and they aren't calling home. It's no different to Mozilla's constant and blatant attempts to reactivate telemetry data in Firefox updates despite opting out - I'd argue that's a bigger offence.
midnitewarrior 1y ago
Yeah, this seems a bit disingenuous given the nature of, and the time since that issue existed. I did their ads, I made hundreds of dollars leaving them on in the early days. I value my attention more so I've shut them off.