Figured to try Brave as it keeps popping up. Installed it and then noticed in my firewall that it is - trying to connect to a number of IPs owned by google, umm OK - sending a multicast SSDP UDP request on port 1900 to 239.255.255.250 So googled that and got this page: https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-disc... Which basically tells you that the first thing Brave does is to try and detect what de…
Just tell them to fix that since it doesnt need to be looking for Chromecast devices
What do you mean by ugly? That GDI text rendering is used on Windows instead of DirectWrite for some font families? This can be disabled in about:config by assigning `gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families` an empty value. Or do you mean that there's no subpixel positioning on non-Windows/macOS? That one has no fix, except when the text rendering part of WebRender goes into production.
I'm confused. Doesn't Firefox use Freetype on Linux? Freetype has subpixel rendering.
Subpixel rendering is different from subpixel positioning.
Figured to try Brave as it keeps popping up. Installed it and then noticed in my firewall that it is - trying to connect to a number of IPs owned by google, umm OK - sending a multicast SSDP UDP request on port 1900 to 239.255.255.250 So googled that and got this page: https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-disc... Which basically tells you that the first thing Brave does is to try and detect what de…
Just tell them to fix that since it doesnt need to be looking for Chromecast devices The end
What kind of a Mickey Mouse (tm) operation providing a private and secure web browser wouldn't have fixed such issues from the start? Doesn't help me trust them.
Just tell them to fix that since it doesnt need to be looking for Chromecast devices The end
What kind of a Mickey Mouse (tm) operation providing a private and secure web browser wouldn't have fixed such issues from the start? Doesn't help me trust them.
They just pull from the Chrome repository before adding their own things, I dont know what you are expecting
Its like you never heard of Brave
You can just ask them to disable it and now you have your fictional higher standard team shrug emoji
I guess you did mention that you dont use Chrome, so this level of distrust is going to be foreign for most of us to relate to
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 Ads are opt in and give 70% of gross revenue to the users who opt in. Leaving this out while glossing over other browsers’ default search revenue model is doubly misleading.
They replace other ad network ads with their own ~ads~ crypto currency . They monetize the content of others and don't tell them. If you have a youtube channel, they will swap out ads and collect the ad revenue without telling the channel that they're doing so. I'm not particularly impressed with their business. In fact I'm pretty disgusted with it.
There is always tons of venom of this exact sort thrown at Brave on HN, yet I've used Brave and have not seen any ads that have been spoken of. Even if they did replace, to be frank, the advertising industry already is disgusting and I'd have no problem with it (well at least no more problem than I already do) In any case it's a great browser, at least better than Chrome when it comes to privacy, and I personally won…
Brave Ads are opt-in, you have to click on the triangle in the right end of the url bar and enable Brave Rewards, which includes Ads. You can turn off Ads but keep Rewards on and send tokens you buy, or direct tokens we have in a granting pool, toward your favorite creators. Ads pay 70% of the gross revenue to the user who opts in, and by default these tokens flow back to your creators, anonymously. Neither Brave nor any partners see linkable automated contributions thanks to a ZKP protocol (anonize.org based). No user browsing data in the clear goes to our servers or partners’ servers (or of course on a blockchain) for any part of Brave Rewards. Which is off by default, to return to my first point. I hope you give it a try. Thanks for your support.
For me, the guide is more like: Does it render text in an ugly manner? Chrome: No Safari: No Firefox: Yes The unfortunate thing is that many Firefox users prefer the Firefox text rendering. There’s no solution to fix this (I’ve researched a lot). It’s just a divide in the users based upon preferences.
I don't know why parent was downvoted. This is on top of the list of things that kept me from switching back to FF.
This is how every thread on this topic goes. 99% downvoted and hate directed towards me. A couple of people chime with “yeah I agree with you”. And nothing changes because it cannot. Because it’s based on preference.
Figured to try Brave as it keeps popping up. Installed it and then noticed in my firewall that it is - trying to connect to a number of IPs owned by google, umm OK - sending a multicast SSDP UDP request on port 1900 to 239.255.255.250 So googled that and got this page: https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-disc... Which basically tells you that the first thing Brave does is to try and detect what de…
Figured to try Brave as it keeps popping up. Installed it and then noticed in my firewall that it is - trying to connect to a number of IPs owned by google, umm OK - sending a multicast SSDP UDP request on port 1900 to 239.255.255.250 So googled that and got this page: https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-disc... Which basically tells you that the first thing Brave does is to try and detect what de…
Hi, we have logging-based auditing but missed UPnP -- it won't happen again, sorry for this oversight and thanks for pointing it out. What "number of IPs owned by google" did you see? We do not see but you may be in a different region. Thanks for any info.
Because it's monetizing other peoples content. In my view, it's the same as cutting and pasting somebody else's content onto my own site with my own ads. Even if I promise to give most of the money I make back to the original content creator, I really have no right to the small part I skim. Update: Sorry didn't mean to suggest it was unethical for you to view a page any way you want, but I think the creators of the B…
Also, as others have pointed out in this thread, they don't replace ads on websites with their own. It blocks ads, and if you want you can view Brave ads in exchange for their cryptocurrency and optionally donate them to participating publishers. I'd say this is no worse than a regular ad blocker, but you at least have the choice to attempt to remunerate the publisher for the lost revenue.
That's right -- user first. Users will do right by their favorite publishers.