‘Bitcoin Browser’ Brave Raises $4.5M, Readies for 1.0 Launch

Post by Mahn » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:33 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #2

> On the desktop, Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase, and a 2x to 4x speed increase on mobile devices. Mobile users see a direct reduction in both battery and data plan consumption. Brave also protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt data traffic, fingerprinting shields, phishing protection, malware filtering, and script blocking. Maybe this is a good enough argume…

Post by st3v3r » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:46 PM UTC

Overtonwindow wrote: post #9

recursive wrote: post #4

Last time I looked at Brave, it was replacing some served ads with its own ads. I do not think that's ok.

I think that's very much ok. At least someone is paying attention to the ads, and curating them so they're not the same awful ads we've been getting. If the current browsers cared anything about our viewing experience we would never get kicked into the app store, or bombarded by some autoplay video, but we do and it's not stopping. Bring on Brave.

Post by dman » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:54 PM UTC

Mahn wrote: post #11

seibelj wrote: post #2

> On the desktop, Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase, and a 2x to 4x speed increase on mobile devices. Mobile users see a direct reduction in both battery and data plan consumption. Brave also protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt data traffic, fingerprinting shields, phishing protection, malware filtering, and script blocking. Maybe this is a good enough argume…

It doesn't make much sense to be honest. I've heard about this browser a few times now and I still have no idea how is it supposed to gain traction. The performance/bandwidth benefits of less shitty ads can be had by simply disabling flash and using an ad blocker, and otherwise average people just aren't going to care to switch. As far as I can tell the only reason investors threw $7M at them is because Brendan Eich…

Post by jcoffland » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

cryptarch wrote: post #14

recursive wrote: post #4

Last time I looked at Brave, it was replacing some served ads with its own ads. I do not think that's ok.

And I think a site's ToS could potentially forbid this and thus provide an avenue to sue either you, Brave or both. Aside from that, I don't think the "my device, my choice" adblock arguments go here. I think it's pretty obviously immoral.

Post by sp332 » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

st3v3r wrote: post #13

Overtonwindow wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's very much ok. At least someone is paying attention to the ads, and curating them so they're not the same awful ads we've been getting. If the current browsers cared anything about our viewing experience we would never get kicked into the app store, or bombarded by some autoplay video, but we do and it's not stopping. Bring on Brave.

It's not their site, and it's not their content. It is not ok, not in the least.