Brave, the FTX of browsers.
Comments like yours, reminds me of the trash on Reddit.
Let me guess you use Chrome?
Brave launches private search ads
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#52If you haven't checked out Kagi, it has been a pleasure to use.
They seem really cool. But, I was reading the FAQ, and they claim it costs about $1 to process 80 searches. That seems extremely high. I would have expected that the up-front cost of creating and storing indexes is very expensive, but the cost of user searches to be so low that they're nearly negligible. Okay, it sounds like they lose money with each new added user
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#53Genuinely interested why do people keep using Brave instead of LibreWolf or ungoogled-chromium?
EDIT: LibreWolf Browser: A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. https://librewolf.net/
ungoogled-chromium: A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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#54Can Brave ad blocker block Brave ads?
It does not. I find the wild, anti-competitive cross product "synergy" the big tech companies are employing just as concerning as privacy violations. (E.g. Google search pushing Chrome and other services, Chrome sync logging users into YouTube, Android, Windows pushing One Drive, Apple music not paying the Apple store tax, Facebook harvesting WhatsApp data etc.) Brave joining those practices leaves an ugly taste.
But will using UBlock Origin, pihole, Quad9 DNS, and a VPN block ads?
I think the answer is yes, since I am yet to see a Brave ad.
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#55I've been testing Brave search for some time now (switched from DDG after 2y) and I have to say that I'm very impressed with the quality of results to the degree that I'm wondering if they are simply scraping Google.
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#56Everything free, becomes ad-infested. Nothing is free, and it's really annoying seeing company after company make empty promises about privacy and "being different", then switching up when their investors start breathing down their necks. Just be honest from the start.
I dunno if it's fair to say "just be honest from the start" -- they might have genuinely believed it but had to face the reality because they set themselves up poorly with how they raised / their finances / etc.
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#57Ads from the browser itself? Do not want.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did Apple or Brave ever say “no ads”? In the case of Brave (and every business), somebody’s got to hand money to someone in order to keep the lights on.
Brave (the browser) has a built-in ad-blocker, the existence of which could be taken as an implicit stance by its creators on how they feel about ads.
I’m not asking how you think the creators feel about ads. Did Brave as a company ever say that their product would be free of ads? If so, what was their plan for not going out of business?
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#60If you haven't checked out Kagi, it has been a pleasure to use.
Kagi is excellent, and it's the only monthly subscription where I actually feel like I'm getting something of value.
Even my Pandora subscription feels like I'm getting ripped off since I really only ever listen to the same songs anyways, and the app is a dumpster fire. Netflix/Disney+/Hulu/etc also suck since they just feel like I'm wasting money due to feuds between companies that having nothing to do with me. I have a Proton Mail subscription, and it's okay, but extremely overpriced for what I'm getting, while a cheaper mail service would potentially get my emails blocked from the big service providers because they think I'm a spammer. There are also apps that are requiring me to pay a monthly sub while offering nothing in return for it just because they can. My workout tracker app for example is exactly the same janky mess it was ~2 years ago, yet I've been paying $4/mo for it!
..but Kagi? It works great, it works reliably, and it works for me.