Am I the only one who uses brave with all bat stuff off? It's a fork of chromium that's up to date, completely open source, ad blocking and fingerprinting defeating built-in, reader mode, etc. Chrome but just better.
The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
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Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#52being in the camp of "nothing ever good comes from adds", I've never considered Brave. A browser is a remote code execution engine for attacker-controlled content. Looking at their bounties on H1 https://hackerone.com/brave/hacktivity they are still solving problems which Mozilla and Google have researched and extinguished long ago. I don't trust Brave to get the security right. Also Ethereum is a scam and doesn't sc…
To be fair to them, I think a good portion of those bugs were back when they were an Electron app. These days they’re a full on fork of Chromium, and no longer are easily subjected to a lot of those potential mistakes.
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#53Am I the only one who uses brave with all bat stuff off? It's a fork of chromium that's up to date, completely open source, ad blocking and fingerprinting defeating built-in, reader mode, etc. Chrome but just better.
Wait there is a reader mode?
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#54The BAT stuff is dumb....I can’t wait to watch 30 mins of ads for 3 cents of a fake money no one wants.
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? Fwiw I've run firefox mobile on Android with ublock origin for at least a year now.
I believe they're referring to the preview browser, not the current one. The preview is only starting to support extensions again.
Yes, I should have precised. Web extensions are a work in progress in Firefox preview. Currently it is only supported in Firefox preview nightly and only ublock origin is available.
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#56If you can have the same ad free experience without a token doesn’t that make the token redundant and in long term Occam principle dictates it won’t catch on.
Until content publishers go out of business or lock their content behind paywalls, and the "ad free experience" only has hobbyist blogs and amateurs. A lot of low rent internet chum would also disappear. So maybe that's a fair trade off, but it will also hurt your local newspaper pretty badly. Nobody has really come up with a good sustainable alternative to ad-funded content for a lot of publishers. Brave is one of m…
> but it will also hurt your local newspaper pretty badly.
I already pay for my local newspaper (and most of their content is behind a paywall anyway).
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's not fake money. It's getting paid to view ads. It's getting paid with fake money to view ads.
Given that it’s convertible into USD and other “real” currencies, how do you expect this line of reasoning to hold?
Did you read the article?
Inventing a currency out of thin air so they can mint as many dollars as they want and you and other geniuses can form a secondary market where all of you can trade it is the genius of brave and the point of this article.
Instead of paying you, they make their own currency and pay you. You can make some money off of it in the secondary market because some other idiot thinks it's worth actual money.
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#58Similar points to this critique, previously on HN:
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#59Am I the only one who uses brave with all bat stuff off? It's a fork of chromium that's up to date, completely open source, ad blocking and fingerprinting defeating built-in, reader mode, etc. Chrome but just better.
Wait there is a reader mode?
On mobile there is. Not sure about desktop
Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
#60Quote: "You’re going to be browsing the web anyway; you’re going to be inundated with ads anyway;"
Naaaah, Firefox with uBlock Origins and Privacy Badger makes sure I don't see ads, but thank you for trying.