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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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Post by boomlinde »

russdill wrote: post #205
robbrown451 wrote: post #41

I'm impressed with Brave. I've started using it as my primary browser (after a couple false starts a year or so ago) and it has all the best of Chrome without the worst. There is controversy about how Brave does stuff, and I agree there is some sketchy stuff they are doing (replacing ads with their own). I'm glad they are giving us a choice, though, and exploring different options for sites being able to makes some m…

As soon as an ad-blocker starts trying to monetize with ads, it's like the death knell.

This is what AdBlock Plus did with the "Acceptable ads" program, which is their main source of revenue. Arguably with some reasonable criteria for what an "acceptable ad" is, but to me entirely unreasonable because the software doesn't by default do what it says on the tin.

That's years ago, I believe, and there are still ad blockers that don't seem to accept compromise.

Re: Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust

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Post by bigzyg33k »

asnack wrote: post #285
fghtr wrote: post #272

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>Firefox makes money by its search deal with Google Of course, development costs a lot. They will not need to rely on Google in the future if more people donate to them regularly. Consider donating to Firefox.

Considering most of their jobs are in mountain view, a very expensive col and developer salary area, they should consider moving somewhere more economical if they expect to live on handouts. Why should we have to support their over priced office space?

Because they're still doing important work, and deserve to have nice things? Why does working at a non profit mean that you should have a bad quality of life?

You don't have to support them, but if their product provides value to you, it's worth considering

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

hjek wrote: post #240
__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #162

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If I feel you're owed a token, but you don't have a wallet in they currency, what should I do: - make you a wallet and let you claim it later? - keep the token? Neither of these constitute a hostage situation. There's no buying in except the time it takes to move that token to an exchange and turn it into dollars or kgs of cocaine or whatever.

> - make you a wallet and let you claim it later? > - keep the token? The problem is pretending to do the first while actually doing the latter (when the token isn't claimed after X days, etc...)

Yeah, I suppose it would be better to just let the tokens pile up in the wallet, the better to later inventivize adoption later.

I still think it's less shady than the concept of advertising in the first place. I have yet to come across a satisfying definition of malware that doesn't also describe web advertising.

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Post by urza »

amelius wrote: post #266
_pmf_ wrote: post #263

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As a user of Brave, I'm consciously making this decision, thank you very much. What's your idea as to how content creators should be supported?

The problem is that if you start paying content creators, then you're giving data to another party, i.e. your bank.

Alternatives based on peer-to-peer (micro)payments are already staring to emerge, e.g. this guys is building patreon alternative based on Lightning Network (Bitcoin's second layer able to handle millions of tx per seconds for negligible fee):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/aacw3h/im_creating...

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Post by Ajedi32 »

korm wrote: post #268
_pmf_ wrote: post #263

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As a user of Brave, I'm consciously making this decision, thank you very much. What's your idea as to how content creators should be supported?

Why do you need to be tracked to support content creators?

You don't. Which is why Brave's ads don't do that.

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Post by walterbell »

dymk wrote: post #99
walterbell wrote: post #61

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Sadly not an option on iOS, which is the reason for using Brave in the first place.

Ad blockers have existed on iOS for years. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027

Thanks, it seems much faster than 1BlockerX with Safari. Is there a way to whitelist sites?

Brave allows granular blocking on a per-site basis, with a simple in-browser UI on iOS. Do Safari content blockers work with Brave on iOS?

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Post by Ajedi32 »

amelius wrote: post #276
Galaxeblaffer wrote: post #273

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depends.. Brave has actually got it's own token that could be used to pay creators, not sure how the transactions are logged though but i'd imagine that you can privately pay without being tracked

Yes, but there's always a third party that can in theory collect all your data.

Who? I'm not really familiar with how Brave does it, but there are plenty of cryptocurrencies where that's definitely _not_ the case.

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Post by Ajedi32 »

tomaskafka wrote: post #261

A simple guide to choosing your browser: Does it make money by showing you ads? Chrome: Yes Brave: Yes Firefox: No If yes, then they need to track your behavior in detail. I'm sure you don't deserve to be tracked.

The difference is any tracking Brave does is 100% local on your device, which eliminates any potential privacy issues that may exist with other advertising models.

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Post by caiocaiocaio »

davesmith1983 wrote: post #137
firecall wrote: post #132

Ah yes, Brave, the browser founded by the homophobic Brendan Eich. Lets continue to validate this odious individual. https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/04/brendan-eich-homoph... Why so many links to Brave on HN, is it astroturfing?

Brendan Eich is a Catholic that is why he opposed same sex marriage. That doesn't make him a homophobe, that makes him someone that opposes same sex marriage because of his religious beliefs. People seem to constantly conflate opposition to Same Sex marriage with Homophobia. Sure I suspect that many homophobes are opposed to same sex marriage, but many libertarians are opposed to it because they don't believe Governm…

I didn't call him a homophobe. I called him a coward.

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic schools for twelve years. One thing I noticed is that they only seem to be against homosexuality when it's not a priest raping a child. Using a world-wide institution to protect people who harm children is another act of cowardice.

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