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Brave launches 1.0

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Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by mattlondon »

simon_weber wrote: post #10

I used Brave for a while on Android and found it to work well. However, in the last month or so something changed and it started freezing constantly. I've since switched to Firefox, which is much better on Android than when I last tried it.

I've been using Brave on android for a while now and it has been really good - it is basically the same as chrome, except with a built-in ad blocker. Highly recommend it as your daily driver.

I use firefox on desktop, but found firefox on android to be a bit clunky the last time I tried it (years ago)

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Post by etr71115 »

_bxg1 wrote: post #17

I tried out Brave ~3 years ago when it was still Electron-based, and it was unfortunately too laggy to be a daily driver. Then I tried it out again ~6 months ago after they'd switched it to being a Chromium fork. The speed was much-improved, but it suddenly started spamming me with push notifications about various features, Brave rewards, etc. I felt like I was blocking web ads just to get native ads instead. You can…

You can turn off ads in your browser settings under "Brave Rewards". You won't earn any tokens though.

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Post by _bxg1 »

triangleman wrote: post #19
_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.

I figured it out. This guy is a SJW who is offended that Brendan Eich donated $1000 to Prop 8 in California.

I mean, that was a pretty terrible thing to do and learning it does color my perception of Brave. I just wish the OP had provided that context (and they probably wouldn't have gotten so downvoted by others if they had).

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Post by adambyrtek »

abhinavsharma wrote: post #18

What is Brave doing under the hood to get these claimed performance improvements over Chrome, Firefox and Safari?

I guess just blocking ads and trackers gives a significant performance boost they leverage in their marketing. I bet benchmark against any of the other browsers with ad-blockers installed would give a different result.

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Post by FpUser »

https://brave.com/malvertising-homeland-security/ "Brave warns US Senate & Congress: foreign state actors can use targeted ads to run code on US government computers, exploiting conventional browsers"

Oh, my. I am so scared. And Brave is of course a knight in shining armor ready to protect our shaken foundations.

Re: Brave launches 1.0

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Post by Dolores12 »

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…

You disable competitors ads to show your own. Something is wrong with it.
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