How does it stack up against uBlock Origin on Chrome ? ABP is a notoriously heavy unoptimized piece of software compared to uBlock. I would be very interested in this comparison.
Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
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Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
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Brave is a private, for-profit company that has raised $42 million in venture funding—out of curiosity why do you bother doing free work for them in your spare time?
This same argument is true of nearly all companies, including "not for profit." For instance the chair at Mozilla/FireFox pays himself $1.1 million a year, the treasurer $1 million. [1] And those numbers are probably higher now. That's from 2016, the most recent published data on their site. Since 2013 [2] their CEO has increased his yearly compensation by more than $300k, and the treasurer increased his pay by more…
And ?
The Linux foundation heads have a similar salary range, like many other foundations and it is not an issue.
"Not for profit" means with a public stated goal, means that your share holder will not suddenly overcome your company strategy and make you sell all your client data, or make you sell bananas, because "it's more profitable on short term".
That is not an hypothetical scenario, many IT companies already felt into this trap. The foundation model of Mozilla protect you against that. This is something that Brave company does not... And the position of its CEO on publicity does not reinforce my trust into that.
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
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People need to stop with this argument. Chromium might be open source, but it's still Google who decides what get merged. And yes, people can fork, do their own patches, fixes, but if it deviates too much from Google, you'll end up with a new browser to maintain on your end without a team the size of Google. If all theses teams choose to not implement their own browser, it's for a reason: a web browser is a complex p…
I think Edge is good for Chromium. That puts Microsoft as a stakeholder there too, which takes power away from Google. If Apple were to move to a chromium-backed Safari, that would mean that three major players would be stakeholders in Chromium having a sane future. This means that if you send a meaningful patch, Google doesn't like it, but Microsoft and Apple do, it might get merged.
Google owns and controls the chromium project, if they don't like a patch, its not getting merged.
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brave is a private, for-profit company that has raised $42 million in venture funding—out of curiosity why do you bother doing free work for them in your spare time?
This same argument is true of nearly all companies, including "not for profit." For instance the chair at Mozilla/FireFox pays himself $1.1 million a year, the treasurer $1 million. [1] And those numbers are probably higher now. That's from 2016, the most recent published data on their site. Since 2013 [2] their CEO has increased his yearly compensation by more than $300k, and the treasurer increased his pay by more…
On the flip side, what people seem to want “not for profit” to mean is “employees work for below market rate for some reason”.
I don't get it. I would expect employees at a non-profit to be compensated along the same lines as those at a for-profit. It's a constant easy story for shitty journalism in the UK – "oh my god this head of a charity makes far less than the head of an equivalently–sized private company! what a bastard!"
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#235Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Second point I agree on, first point--how? Chromium is opensource. What can google do?
People need to stop with this argument. Chromium might be open source, but it's still Google who decides what get merged. And yes, people can fork, do their own patches, fixes, but if it deviates too much from Google, you'll end up with a new browser to maintain on your end without a team the size of Google. If all theses teams choose to not implement their own browser, it's for a reason: a web browser is a complex p…
I don't understand why you think this means that Google can easily kill all Chrome clones in one funny day.
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
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Not seeing "login options" in Settings on Brave for iOS, Version 1.9.3 (19.05.22.15)
Ah sorry those options are on the desktop build. Perhaps there are tickets in the github repo to add this to mobile builds?
I don't see them on the desktop build either.
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#239Anyone familiar with configuring the Brave ad blocker? I find that by default it blocks fewer ads than uBlock origin. I'm not really sure what special sauce is involved in that.
You can just install ublock origin extension on brave and get best of both worlds.
Or AdNauseam ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19278936 )
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
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Yes, they created wallets without asking beforehand, replaced the ads you monetize your site with with their own BAT system, and held funds hostage unless you buy into their system.
If I feel you're owed a token, but you don't have a wallet in they currency, what should I do: - make you a wallet and let you claim it later? - keep the token? Neither of these constitute a hostage situation. There's no buying in except the time it takes to move that token to an exchange and turn it into dollars or kgs of cocaine or whatever.
> - make you a wallet and let you claim it later?
> - keep the token?
The problem is pretending to do the first while actually doing the latter (when the token isn't claimed after X days, etc...)