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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by Yizahi on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:40AM (#20292698)
Ask yourself a question - why would you do that? For privacy reasons and to avoid future Googlenet monopoly? Then using Chrome mod instead of Chrome solves nothing.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by potlato on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:02PM (#20298071)
Because even if we're being not generous, the difference between natively blocking even some ads/trackers and disentangling from Google services in any way is clearly better than not. Would you flip a coin every time if an unmodifiable computer offered only Chrome and Brave?
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