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Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by johnebgd »

drnick1 wrote: post #45
w0ts0n wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is quite a lot of costs associated with running a browser (at scale). Brave is looking to offer something that does what you mention called Brave-origin. Brendan talks about this a bit more here: https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/2006412918783619455

This is good news, but I am confused by the following: """ Brave Origin is: 1/ new, optional, separate build (stripped down, no telemetry/rewards/wallet/vpn/ai); 2/ free on Linux, one time buy elsewhere. """ So the stripped down version (at least the non-Linux one) will not be open source?

I’d pay a monthly fee for a browser where I’m not the product anymore and it respects my privacy.

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by Dah00n »

mikkupikku wrote: post #184
awnird wrote: post #21

Does Brave actually block ads now? Or does it still replace them with ads for scanmy cryptocurrency?

It's incredible how people can hallucinate nonsense like this out of nothing, simply because their hatred for Brendan Eich drives them insane.

Maybe what GP remember is the VPN they secretly installed, the affiliate links they silently added, the donations they took for other companies and kept for themselves, or one of the other times Brave was caught. It is a wonder people think the code base is trustworthy when we know for a fact how they behave with stuff we can see. But sure, try to make it look like it has anything to do with a person hardly anyone have ever heard of.

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by goodpoint »

bluecalm wrote: post #216
VladVladikoff wrote: post #91

Is Brave actually a good browser now? Did they rewrite it or something? Last time I looked it was a janky JavaScript mess.

It's better Chrome: no ads, faster (because no ads), some nice features on top. What's not to like?

it has a lot of sketchy telemetries

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by ikekkdcjkfke »

fenwick67 wrote: post #81
weedhopper wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lead what? https://archive.is/W0k4j (disclaimer: people remember how sketchy Brave is)

Don't forget when they took donations on behalf of other websites and kept the money unless the operator went to the "escrow account" to collect it

Jesus dont you see they are trying atleast an alternative to non consensual anal probes by other ad companies?

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by speed_spread »

SkiFire13 wrote: post #214
speed_spread wrote: post #208

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It's not just about memory. I'd like to have a stable Rust ABI to make safe plugin systems. Large binaries could also be broken down into dynamic libraries and make rebuilds much faster at the cost of leaving some optimizations on the table. This could be done today with a semi stable versionned ABI. New app builds would be able to load older libraries. The main problem with dynamic libraries is when they're shared a…

> I'd like to have a stable Rust ABI to make safe plugin systems A stable ABI would allow making more robust Rust-Rust plugin systems, but I wouldn't consider that "safe"; dynamic linking is just fundamentally unsafe. > Large binaries could also be broken down into dynamic libraries and make rebuilds much faster at the cost of leaving some optimizations on the table. This can already be done within a single project b…

Loading dynamic libraries can fail for many reasons but once loaded and validated it should be no more unsafe than regular crates?

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by TiredOfLife »

jhoho wrote: post #224
Dah00n wrote: post #211

They could cut it 110%, so my available RAM grew bigger, and I would still not trust them. They have been caught with their hands deep in the cookie jar too many times.

Can you elaborate?

That's not how fud works

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by VladVladikoff »

jamesnorden wrote: post #192
VladVladikoff wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely tried out brave several years ago and legit got lots of crypto ads. I really don’t know how you are getting upvoted for lying about this.

[flagged]

Wild accusations considering this stuff still exists online as direct evidence: https://brave.com/blog/binance/

Also attacking the person instead of the ideas is really not in the spirit of HN.

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by mrbn100ful »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #207
tredre3 wrote: post #123

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> a janky JavaScript mess. You might be thinking of Vivaldi. Brave is certainly buggy, but it's not written in Javascript.

The project is listed as 100% JavaScript on github https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

>This repository holds the build tools needed to build the Brave desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The web browser is here : https://github.com/brave/brave-core (8% of typescript)

Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

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Post by mikkupikku »

Dah00n wrote: post #222
mikkupikku wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's incredible how people can hallucinate nonsense like this out of nothing, simply because their hatred for Brendan Eich drives them insane.

Maybe what GP remember is the VPN they secretly installed, the affiliate links they silently added, the donations they took for other companies and kept for themselves, or one of the other times Brave was caught. It is a wonder people think the code base is trustworthy when we know for a fact how they behave with stuff we can see . But sure, try to make it look like it has anything to do with a person hardly anyone h…

With the number of times the above lie has been repeated and corrected, virtually every single Brave thread for several years straight now, I am inclined to think it's actually maliciousness which is motivating people to continue posting it.
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