Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by theferalrobot on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:13PM
(#20290260)
Did you read the link you posted? They block many facebook tracking components but there are some things they aren't touching right now because some website depend on facebook for logins.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by walterbell on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:19PM
(#20290295)
How can people, who are not using those websites, avoid Facebook tracking on the rest of the web?
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by prophesi on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:30PM
(#20290377)
Install one of the many chromium extensions that block/obfuscate such tracking.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by walterbell on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:04PM
(#20290572)
Sadly not an option on iOS, which is the reason for using Brave in the first place.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by prophesi on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:10PM
(#20290606)
Honestly, blocking ads/trackers on mobile has always been a tricky business. You could set up Pi-Hole on your home network. Or see if there's something similar to this on iOS:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dnsfilter.android/
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by beatgammit on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:38PM
(#20290758)
It's actually one of the reasons I use Android and why I'm looking at alternatives, like Librem 5 and PinePhone. I don't like how Apple doesn't allow competing browser engines on their phones and tablets (only skins that use Safari underneath), and I don't like Google's privacy issues on their phones.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by prophesi on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:14PM
(#20291191)
Yeah, I've pre-ordered the Librem 5 for those same reasons. It will likely absolutely pale in comparison to Android/iOS features, but I'm wanting to go full "Off To Be The Wizard" and help develop the lacking apps.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by dymk on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:01PM
(#20290874)
Ad blockers have existed on iOS for years.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by walterbell on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:19AM
(#20294098)
Thanks, it seems much faster than 1BlockerX with Safari. Is there a way to whitelist sites?
Brave allows granular blocking on a per-site basis, with a simple in-browser UI on iOS. Do Safari content blockers work with Brave on iOS?
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by hombre_fatal on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:04PM
(#20291150)
1Blocker X is probably best in class.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by justsee on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:05PM
(#20290886)
Yes, trackers are blocked by default, and the Google / Twitter / Facebook login options are in the Brave preferences section.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by walterbell on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:20PM
(#20290953)
Not seeing "login options" in Settings on Brave for iOS, Version 1.9.3 (19.05.22.15)
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by justsee on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:24PM
(#20290964)
Ah sorry those options are on the desktop build.
Perhaps there are tickets in the github repo to add this to mobile builds?
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine...
by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:59AM
(#20292795)
I don't see them on the desktop build either.
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1108