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Brave launches 1.0

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Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by Hamcha »

I've used Brave since March, and I'm really not impressed. For a browser that tries to be different, it's incredible how little consideration has been given to things that annoy users and that could probably be trivial to remove.

To be more specific, my issues with Brave are:

- Still uses the Chrome Web Store as main store

- Does not have an easy way to load packaged extensions from 3rd party sources

- Even after adding them as unpacked, you still get the same annoying popup every time you open the browser.

- I received notices that "My account was waiting for a deposit" the entire time, even though I never allocated any money to anyone

- Tipping amounts are fixed

I always saw Brave as "not chrome, and not as much of a change as Firefox", but their approach seem lazy, features halfassed at best and the sneaky anti-features that Chrome has been adding to push users to lock into Google stuff (see all my remarks about extensions) not addressed at all.

I'm using Firefox as main browser now, and I haven't been missing brave once.

Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by octocop »

aloisdg wrote: post #12

I am all for fighting capitalism, but I wont tolerate any form of ads. Ads are a threat for free thinking. They are pollution, poison, for the mind. I dont want to face any form of manipulation. Beside, Brave is chromium based. If you want to fight the chrome monopoly, go somewhere else. I could be fine with a fork of Firefox with a preinstall uBlockOrigin, Privacy Possum, facebook container, etc.

If not Ads, how would a 'free service' generate money?

Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by zht »

_bxg1 wrote: post #9
caiocaiocaio wrote: post #5

Brendan Eich named his browser 'brave' because he thinks that he is "brave" for attacking a minority group. When I was young, in a trashy town, big groups of guys would get together and go 'fag-bashing', which is when a bunch of grown adults beat someone up because they suspect he's gay. Often, the target is a little kid. Since a lot of cops were former fag-bashers, there wasn't much to do about it. Fag bashing stopp…

I'm sorry- I'm extremely confused about what this has to do with this web browser.

Brave was founded by Brandon Eich who donated $1000 to Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.

Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by bvda »

judah wrote: post #13

I've been using Brave rewards, both as a user and a content maker. It's really great, and I feel this may be a reasonable alternative to the invasive trackers+ads we have today. For the uninitiated, Brave lets users opt-in to Brave rewards: - You set your browser to reward content creators with Basic Attention Token (BAT). You set a budget (e.g. 10 BAT/month), and Brave distributes it the sites you use most, e.g. if…

I wonder why they chose to use (yet another) crypto currency for this.

Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by techntoke »

zht wrote: post #24
_bxg1 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry- I'm extremely confused about what this has to do with this web browser.

Brave was founded by Brandon Eich who donated $1000 to Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California.

Yeah, seems weird that Hacker News is censoring this. I guess they don't want people to know that. Maybe Brave gave them some money to push this announcement.

Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

bvda wrote: post #26
judah wrote: post #13

I've been using Brave rewards, both as a user and a content maker. It's really great, and I feel this may be a reasonable alternative to the invasive trackers+ads we have today. For the uninitiated, Brave lets users opt-in to Brave rewards: - You set your browser to reward content creators with Basic Attention Token (BAT). You set a budget (e.g. 10 BAT/month), and Brave distributes it the sites you use most, e.g. if…

I wonder why they chose to use (yet another) crypto currency for this.

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Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by have_faith »

If people like Brave's ad model, all the power to them. I would personally never touch it. I'm not philosophically on board with the idea that paying people to look at ads is a pragmatic way forward. It doesn't matter if it's opt-in, free-to-play games with loot crates are opt-in, but the decision to go down that road will effect their decision making process when designing new features and I don't want to be part of it even indirectly.
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