What is Brave doing under the hood to get these claimed performance improvements over Chrome, Firefox and Safari?
By default, they fail to load stuff like trackers, ads, etc.
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#62I'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 would personally much rather allocate actual dollars instead of CryptoBuckOfTheDay backed by ads I have no desire to ever watch. Say, $20/month that gets allocated to sites I visit. The whole "reward people for watching ads" model just seems... wrong.
I haven’t done it, but based on the configs I saw when setting up Brave, I believe that is an option as well.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder why they chose to use (yet another) crypto currency for this.
Presumably, they want BAT to be publicly tradeable. Hard to do with a central currency.
What central currency isnt publicly tradable? Thats the whole point. US currency even says "for all debts, public and private" on it.
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#64I've been using Brave for several months. It's exactly what I wanted - A faster, chromium-based browser with sensible, privacy-conscious defaults.
I don't personally mind the Chrome Web Store default.
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#65If 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…
In all honesty, I'm not sure how I feel about this model? I'm one of those people who has been out saying that the web needs a new business model. Well, here one is, and yet I find myself a bit hesitant to embrace it? It's probably just a matter of needing more information to fill in the blanks and explain the contradictions.
That said, my mind tends to automatically start strategizing the long game, and I'm uncertain how valuable people who have to be paid to look at ads are to advertisers? I mean, Certainly some advertisers would still be interested. But enough to displace the current model? I'm just not sure.
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#66I don't understand why they didn't use a stable coin/transition BAT to a stable coin, the volatility of BAT probably keeps creators uneasy. Why sign up for a service where contributions can lose half their value overnight.
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#67I'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 add…
Have you had the same experience with their mobile browser? I found the desktop experience lackluster but the only browser that's run faster on my phone is Firefox Focus.
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#68I'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 add…
I guess that a big amount of time and energy is used to bicker about money and legalities, instead of improving the GUI and UX. However, this may simply be the price for something new.. the net had twenty years to decide on micropayments, and now its ad-infestation and surveillance capitalism instead. So, the GUI whining is not convincing here...
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#69I'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 add…
Here's an idea. Go help them make it better. Fixing our broken ass network and the (bad) incentives that keep is afloat is one tough job. We need all the help we can get!
You can start here: https://github.com/brave
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#70I'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 add…
I've also been using it since about March, and been generally happy with it. It's faster than Chrome, and the built-in adblock is great, and the easy incognito/TOR modes are handy. That's basically all I want out of it - it's got all the other nifty Chrome goodies that I use (devtools etc.), the only Chrome extension I used regularly was Adblock, I don't use a whole lot of other power-user features. I've had some stability issues (it crashes about once every 2-3 days), but that could be because I'm running several versions behind. Looking forwards to trying 1.0.