Reminds me of when a musician onstage yells for you to MAKE SOME NOOOIISE!! Um no, the deal is, you be up there and be really good, and fill me with such delight that I can't keep quiet and make a bunch of nooooiise.
Last time I installed Brave, the new tab page had a link to a cryptocurrency news site (probably a paid placement).
If you want the least-gross behavior, it's not going to come from a for-profit startup.
Maybe not, but it seems to be the least annoying right now.
I've never seen it show me an ad (including paid placement type ads) so far. I guess if they junked up their new tab page with intrusive encouragement to start using Brave Rewards and Basic Attention Token (BAT) then that would sort of be the equivalent of what Firefox is doing...
It doesn't block ads very well for me on iOS, and it's really buggy and unstable. My Firefox experience is excellent on every device that supports it. It's unfortunate and frustrating that all iOS browsers are just Safari.
Re:Firefox 69.0 Released
by iamnotacrook on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:50PM
(#20869124)
"you know what fuck it I did just switch my default browser while typing this. :middle-finger-emoji"
Hell yeah! Stick it to the man! Totally consume that content with a different browser!
It's not Pocket that's the problem, it's the gross attempted force-feeding (that just makes me want to try some other browser like Brave (not an endorsement, just what I personally would investigate next)).
How about, instead of "we plastered all this shit from the crap we bought onto every single browser window you henceforth open, you mindless peon!": how about they did some promo graphic and well-done animated enticement, along the lines of, "Hey! Pocket has tons of subscribers who upvote the most meaningful and relevant stories to them — how about we replace your blank homepage with the best of the best?"
But instead they're just like EAT THIS SHIT PLEEB and you know what fuck it I did just switch my default browser while typing this. :middle-finger-emoji-that-HNs-1970s-site-generator-isnt-compatible-with: