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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

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Post by huffmsa »

wdjdkjwjeje wrote: post #9

Brave is brilliant at mobile design is what they're brilliant at. I find Chrome and Firefox on Android unusable because of how much better browsing with Brave feels. Firefox Lite and Microsoft Edge get closer to the pleasure of using Brave on mobile but neither comes close to matching it since Firefox lacks the reliability of Chromium browsers (I know, boo choosing browsers based on usefulness) and Edge has a fetish…

> Edge has a fetish for bloated sub-menus

A Microsoft product with drop-downs inside of drop-downs? Say it ain't so.

Brave does feel good, but it would be better if the spyglass at the bottom was "find in page" and not Search, since we have an omnibar.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by [deleted] »

frank2 wrote: post #15
mattlondon wrote: post #5

Totally off-topic but I really liked the CSS/design for this site. Simple layout, nice choice of fonts, and a sensible and easy-to-read colour combination for this "wall of text" style presentation. Nice one.

I dislike it. I can handle white backgrounds and black backgrounds, but pages like the OP which have large regions of both overstimulate me.

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Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by rectang »

jackewiehose wrote: post #14
mattlondon wrote: post #5

Totally off-topic but I really liked the CSS/design for this site. Simple layout, nice choice of fonts, and a sensible and easy-to-read colour combination for this "wall of text" style presentation. Nice one.

Interesting... I find it absolutely terrible. White monospace font on a black background - no thanks. Without reader mode I wouldn't stay a second on such a page.

You're not alone. The book "Type and Layout" by Colin Wheildon describes a "readability" experiment measuring the impact of various typographical techniques on whether subjects comprehend a magazine article. Light text on black background performed abysmally.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1875750223

(Naturally I believe people who say white-on-black works for them, but I don't believe that preference is universal or should be a default if readability is an important criteria.)

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by katsura »

latchkey wrote: post #20

I've been clicking the desktop ad notifications like a madman. Earning BAT, then taking that BAT and converting it to an interest bearing stable coin token in DeFi (~8%). Some of the BAT I earn, I also convert into ETH so I can pay for gas, making my transactions 'free'. It has been a fun experiment in playing with this stuff, but it certainly isn't going to make me rich or anything.

You don't have to click on them to earn tokens.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by cryptica »

latchkey wrote: post #17
terhechte wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that a temporary problem though? With ETH 2 launching probably by the end of the year?

ETH2 phase 0 _may_ come at the end of the year. It will be many more years before ETH2 is live and trusted with real funds... enough to either absorb ETH1 or switch over to it. Heck, it may not happen at all. Amazing how this group mindset around ETH2 works.

Agreed. I think most people don't realize how massive of a technical challenge it is to shard something as large and complex as the Ethereum blokchain without introducing critical security vulnerabilities.

When you combine the complexity of the system, the constant need to try to maintain backwards compatibility and the sheer number of people involved in the project, you have every reason to be skeptical.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by 101404 »

azalemeth wrote: post #2

I never really looked into BAT and only use Brave on mobile (mostly then as its UI for its javascript switch is far better than dealing with uMatrix on firefox mobile). I had no idea that the whole thing is yet another altcoin IPO with excellent marketing. They really must be laughing all the way to the bank...

Same here.

Since using Brave, I have JavaScript off by default and can easily enable it for specific sites.

Makes most websites so much faster.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by pjc50 »

_rrnv wrote: post #16

The author discovered how capitalism works. Everything that has value, has it because there are people willing to pay for it, not necessarily because it has value or purpose. To use a tangible example instead of a virtual one - go read how diamonds have been pumped up by the mining-cutting cartels to be perceived as very valuable while in fact it's very hard to convert them to cash without a significant loss. PS. I'v…

> how much freedom 24 seed words give in times of crisis. You could move a billion dollars stashed in pages of a harlequin novel through every border & customs check and nobody would ever know. Try that with physical materials.

But there's a problem: you never moved the money at all. You need to bookend it with two transactions to move the real money in and out of the bitcoin system, which nearly always involves intersecting the controls of the real system. It's more like hawala banking. And can suffer 50% exchange rate swings in a very short time.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by latchkey »

katsura wrote: post #24
latchkey wrote: post #20

I've been clicking the desktop ad notifications like a madman. Earning BAT, then taking that BAT and converting it to an interest bearing stable coin token in DeFi (~8%). Some of the BAT I earn, I also convert into ETH so I can pay for gas, making my transactions 'free'. It has been a fun experiment in playing with this stuff, but it certainly isn't going to make me rich or anything.

You don't have to click on them to earn tokens.

Oh really? That's interesting... any documentation on this?

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by katsura »

latchkey wrote: post #28
katsura wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to click on them to earn tokens.

Oh really? That's interesting... any documentation on this?

Yes, here: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026361072-Bra...

> In the initial Brave Ads release, users receive BAT for viewing the ad notifications. In future releases, users will be able to earn additional rewards for engagement events within the ad tabs. Brave does not reward users for clicking on the notifications. Brave’s position is that users should only click on ads that they have a genuine interest in engaging with.

Re: The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think

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Post by latchkey »

cryptica wrote: post #25
latchkey wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ETH2 phase 0 _may_ come at the end of the year. It will be many more years before ETH2 is live and trusted with real funds... enough to either absorb ETH1 or switch over to it. Heck, it may not happen at all. Amazing how this group mindset around ETH2 works.

Agreed. I think most people don't realize how massive of a technical challenge it is to shard something as large and complex as the Ethereum blokchain without introducing critical security vulnerabilities. When you combine the complexity of the system, the constant need to try to maintain backwards compatibility and the sheer number of people involved in the project, you have every reason to be skeptical.

I've also been following the progpow debate rather closely for the last 1.5 years. ProgPoW is supposed to be a simple PoW change to keep ETH1 asic resistant now that asics have been developed.

This is a 2 year old codebase that has had a paid audit and tons of eyes on it. Just this week, someone discovered and announced an issue. While the fix is relatively trivial, the amazing thing is that it went unnoticed for so long.

I can only imagine ETH2, which is a brand new codebase, whole new consensus model, using cutting edge research (zkSNARKS) and shaped like a rube goldberg machine, will be full of issues nobody has even dared to imagine. I couldn't imagine trusting billions of dollars of value to that literally over night.

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