A simple guide to choosing your browser:
Does it make money by showing you ads?
Chrome: Yes Brave: Yes Firefox: No
If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.
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
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean also the fact that the browser most people used at that time was bad may have been a factor. Chrome was a noticeable step up from IE.
For me, Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was a noticeable step up from IE, and Chrome was a noticeable step up from Firefox. Chrome did especially well relative to Firefox when I had a lot of tabs, and for JS-heavy sites. I bounced back and forth several times: * I tried it for a month in January 2010, and went back to Firefox because Chrome was slower and less stable: https://www.jefftk.com/p/google-chrome * I tried it for…
Try switching once more, and turn on Webrender this time - it's still beta, but I had no issues and it made my FF Chrome-fast.
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#263A simple guide to choosing your browser: Does it make money by showing you ads? Chrome: Yes Brave: Yes Firefox: No If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.
As a user of Brave, I'm consciously making this decision, thank you very much. What's your idea as to how content creators should be supported?
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#264They should have written it in Rust, oh wait...
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#265Brave isn't a choice for me 'cause Google can easily kill all Chrome clones in one funny day. Also Brave monetization looks very tricky.
Second point I agree on, first point--how? Chromium is opensource. What can google do?
Google can make forks of Chromium unusable in practice by refusing to license their WideVine DRM module.
This has already happened: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/03/googles_widevine_dr...
> Developer Samuel Maddock found this out to his cost. He's been working on an open source Electron-based (Chromium) browser called Metastream that allows users to stream videos in sync with one another. It's designed to be a way for friends to watch shows together even when they're apart.
> But Google's Widevine DRM business doesn't want to work with him. After four months of waiting, the firm responded to his request to license their proprietary DRM code, in conjunction with the castLabs API, with a denial.
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Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#266A simple guide to choosing your browser: Does it make money by showing you ads? Chrome: Yes Brave: Yes Firefox: No If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.
As a user of Brave, I'm consciously making this decision, thank you very much. What's your idea as to how content creators should be supported?
The problem is that if you start paying content creators, then you're giving data to another party, i.e. your bank.
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#267A simple guide to choosing your browser: Does it make money by showing you ads? Chrome: Yes Brave: Yes Firefox: No If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.
As a user of Brave, I'm consciously making this decision, thank you very much. What's your idea as to how content creators should be supported?
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Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#268A simple guide to choosing your browser: Does it make money by showing you ads? Chrome: Yes Brave: Yes Firefox: No If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.
As a user of Brave, I'm consciously making this decision, thank you very much. What's your idea as to how content creators should be supported?
Why do you need to be tracked to support content creators?
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
How old is your PC? Mine is ~5 years old and Chromium has worse performance for me.
Thinkpad x201, probably 2011. Maybe Firefox needs a minimum to perform adequately. But again, chrome really is slicker (massively so).
These are all just anecdotes. I use a low-end laptop from 2010 and Firefox works fine on it. I switched to it from Chrome years ago when they removed some functionality (I think it may have been the backspace to go back but it may have been something else) and I didn't notice any performance issues. If anything it got faster with the Quantum update though I haven't used Chrome since so I don't know how they compare.
Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
#270Coming to Dissenter browser soon :D