Brave 0.55 released
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Brave 0.55 released
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#2Can someone outline the justification for the switch to Chromium and the difference between Chromium and Muon, which seems to be based on Chromium anyway?
Re: Brave 0.55 released
#3Can someone outline the justification for the switch to Chromium and the difference between Chromium and Muon, which seems to be based on Chromium anyway?
I think Muon is/was a fork of Electron? So maybe they are just using Chromium more directly now?
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#4I love the irony in “You are not a product“ from a commercial product (open source, I know) designed to monetize surfing (aka pay-to-surf), as if this is what the internet is about. I think we should resist such an effort and stick with projects (not companies) that want to keep the internet as it was meant to be, ie Mozilla Firefox.
No problem with monetization but I want a browser that puts me first, not a middleman that tries to profit from the trend to subvert the open culture of the internet, pretending they put my privacy first. It’s an excuse, not the main purpose of this browser.
Re: Brave 0.55 released
#5I love the irony in “You are not a product“ from a commercial product (open source, I know) designed to monetize surfing (aka pay-to-surf), as if this is what the internet is about. I think we should resist such an effort and stick with projects (not companies) that want to keep the internet as it was meant to be, ie Mozilla Firefox. No problem with monetization but I want a browser that puts me first, not a middlema…
Because Mozilla is totally not a corporation. Brave makes usage of BAT and their ads optional and disabled by default.
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#6The "download for Android" button leads to the Apple Store. That was... interesting.
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#7Anyone using Brave? Would love to hear your impressions.
Re: Brave 0.55 released
#8I love the irony in “You are not a product“ from a commercial product (open source, I know) designed to monetize surfing (aka pay-to-surf), as if this is what the internet is about. I think we should resist such an effort and stick with projects (not companies) that want to keep the internet as it was meant to be, ie Mozilla Firefox. No problem with monetization but I want a browser that puts me first, not a middlema…
> not a middleman that tries to profit
Brave doesn't profit directly from advertising revenue. BAT is completely separate. The point is, specifically, to remove the incentive for the current trend of stealing your privacy by offering an incentive to directly pay content creators.
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#9Can someone outline the justification for the switch to Chromium and the difference between Chromium and Muon, which seems to be based on Chromium anyway?
Muon was a fork of electron, which included many patches for features required for a variety of desktop apps. The amount of packages ensures that it takes time to upgrade to new chromium releases (regression testing with the patches).
Since brave is just a browser, it does not need all of those extra patches and features. So it is simpler and easier to just roll with chromium directly.
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#10I've used the mobile version for a while, but switched back to Opera after Google Ads showed up on a web page in a popover, despite having been blocked. It was already Chromium-based. Opera doesn't have the flip-switch menu Brave has to switch off certain features, including Javascript (very helpful for disabling most those annoying cookie and GDPR consent popovers) but their ad blocker is quite effective.