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Have you tried Brave?
by bamboozled 10mo ago
Have you tried Brave?
- EbNar 10mo agoBeen running it since 2021. The adblocker is simply great. A d keeps getting better.
- EbNar 10mo agoand*
- Larrikin 10mo agoIt's good enough when some terrible lazy web designer only tested on Chrome. It does nothing to protect against the future when Google decides they are sick of people trying to get around their Ad Block ban and change the license because no one has any real alternatives anymore. Also blocking is not as good as intentionally poisoning with something like Ad Nauseum
- coffeebeqn 10mo agoWhat’s the current licensing mode? Can they fork their own version at that point in time and develop it open source ?
- cpeterso 10mo agoChromium uses the BSD license. Google could take Chromium closed source tomorrow without needing to change the license.
- pseudalopex 10mo agoNo Chromium fork developer not called Microsoft have the resources to maintain a web browser engine. But focus on the license overlooks a more important threat. Google made Web Environment Integrity so services could require approved devices, operating systems, and browsers. Resistance led Google to remove it from desktop for now. But they kept something like it in Android. And they will try again.
- lurk2 10mo agoA few years ago. Crashed constantly and didn’t support tagging bookmarks.
- bamboozled 10mo agoNever crashed once for me.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoBrave is adware.
- mikkupikku 10mo agoOnly if you opt-in to that misfeature, last I checked. It's opt-in, not opt-out.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoI don't know, Brave says it's every third new tab. https://brave.com/brave-ads/browser/ https://brave.com/brave-ads/browser/
- lkbm 10mo agoLooks like I'm getting a ProtonMail ad every few new tabs. I never noticed because I've never looked at the new tab page. Doesn't noticeably slow it down to have the ad there, luckily.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoSo, to reiterate: Brave is adware.
- cpburns2009 10mo agoThe new tab ads can be disabled with 2 clicks.
- thesuitonym 10mo agoI love how quickly the goalpost moves from "No ads" to "Only opt in ads" to "Ads can be disabled with two clicks." Quit coping and just admit it, Brave is adware. If you like it, that's cool, totally your choice. It's fast, performant adware. But it's adware all the same.
- 10mo ago