Or just ungoogled chromium.
Brave is bizarre and terrible. The idea of trying to replace ad-tech as it currently exists is great, and I welcome any experimentation thereunto. That said, brave does it wrong, and I don't think it's a good idea to support that; even without using their ad-tech feature, it still gives them mind- and market-share, and propagates their ad system elsewhere.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox
by anon_alchemist on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:21AM
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Brave blocks all ads and provides its own "ad platform" which basically means that they curate what ads you will see. I fail to see how their model could fix what is wrong with facebook or google.
Their ad model is what gets discussed every time Brave comes up and it's irrelevant to me - I block all ads myself regardless of the browser.
My point is that if you switch ads off in Brave, you end up with a really good browsing experience, better than Chrome + adblock or Firefox + adblock.
For me, a browser has to support uBlock Origin, as it works today. I don't want the browser vendor deciding how ads and trackers get blocked, it's a conflict of interest and it's never been done better than uBO anyway. Won't all chromium based browser break proper ad/tracker blocking once that manifest v3 thing happens?
Brave said they wouldn't. Who knows. I switched and I'm liking it a lot thus far, but if they implement manifest v3, all that will remain of me will be a puff of smoke
Vivaldi is another Chrome fork with a strong focus on privacy. From the original creators of Opera.
Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox
by computerfriend on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:25AM
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Vivaldi is non-free and closed source.
I was a bit reluctant for a while because their branding is weird and there's too much focus on their crypto ad model. But if you switch the crypto stuff off, you have a fork of Chrome that performs just as well and also has a few additional privacy features and isn't linked to your Google account. Highly recommend.