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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by Naomi3 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:45AM (#22125669)
Regarding battery/bandwidth consumption on mobile, Brave is better even with Firefox + uBlock Origin combined.

[0]: https://brave.com/brave-saves-batteries/

[1] : https://brave.com/brave-one-dot-zero-performance-methodology...

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by smolder on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:55AM (#22125716)
Brave on android also broadcasts your phone model in the user agent, unlike FF. They've said they would fix this and then let the GitHub issue languish for at least a year at this point.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/7758

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by 1011_1101 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:14AM (#22125794)
Even if that's true. Providing only sources from one of the competitors in question doesn't make your argument.
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