Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
by entropie on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:17PM
(#48557628)
I used brave a bit and really liked it.
But its obvious that these guys are semi shady and they will show sooner or later. I liked chrome derviates and used them over a decade. I got tired of feeling forced to switch after vivaldi/brave so I went the firefox way last year.
The circle is completed.
Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
by systems on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:27PM
(#48557803)
how are they obviously semi shady? whats shady about brave?
Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
by systems on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:55PM
(#48559214)
yea this is bad, i had kinda forgotten about this
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45#issue...
i dont know, firefox is very buggy and unstable, crashes or just log me out of everything every few weeks, we dont really have great choices, wishful thinking, but i hope brave straightened up
Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
by dizhn on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @07:33AM
(#48568861)
Yuck! I'd heard of these but I am always like "it IS open source". But so is Mozilla. I actually did test a build of Ladybird. The sites I looked at (without login or anything) basically all work fine but they are VERY slow. This is understandable. Performance is not their priority right now. It is coming along fine though.
Re:Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
by drnick1 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:26PM
(#48560607)
What bothers me about Brave is that, although it is "open source," in practice using Brave means running binaries distributed by Brave Software (a for-profit, VC-backed adtech company). As far as I know, no independent builds are yet part of a mainstream Linux distro, and the project calls forks "freeriding." The browser may be OK, but all of this does not inspire a lot of confidence.
Yesterday I wanted to get a brave search api key on the free tier and they require a credit card even for that. That pissed me off a bit but still gonna test the browser a little bit more. Firefox is really pissing me off and I don't want to keep using it forever just because there is no other browser engine. Can't wait for Ladybird to become usable.