Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
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Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#2How will Brave prevent anti-ad-blocking mechanisms from interfering with the page?
For example, cbs/abc/nbc seem to detect muBlock and then stop serving content.
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#3https://github.com/brave/browser-ios
"Firefox for iOS"
They forgot to remove the branding from their "new" browser.
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#4This para from their home page could be akin to legalizing marijuana!
"The new Brave browser blocks all the greed and ugliness on the Web that slows you down and invades your privacy. Then we put clean ads back."
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#5https://github.com/brave/browser-ios "Firefox for iOS" They forgot to remove the branding from their "new" browser.
It's not a mistake. Firefox is referenced throughout the documentation. Looks like Brave is built on top of it.
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#6https://github.com/brave/browser-ios "Firefox for iOS" They forgot to remove the branding from their "new" browser.
It's not a mistake. Firefox is referenced throughout the documentation. Looks like Brave is built on top of it.
Venturebeat claims it's based on Chromium, but they also seem to be pretty confused because they're calling it "a brand new browser, because (builing on top of existing browsers) would imply limited functionality by virtue of their application programming interfaces (APIs) and less impressive performance gains"
http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/20/brave-browser/
So it's Chrome on Desktop, Firefox for iOS on iOS?
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#7I would much prefer a new browser that makes true native web apps possible with a one-click install to indicate trust.
A browser built with Electron that exposes Node.js and otherwise keeps away from the HTML5 kitchen sink, in order to push innovation away from the spec committees and back out to the community. Vital technology like TCP, UDP, DNS, and the filesystem is being locked up behind a fascade of poorly implemented APIs.
A browser with a small, efficient core, optimized for rendering, and with a brilliant app install system, and brilliant native cross-platform integration. The time is ripe.
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#8Haven't looked at the source but worth noting there's a Bitcoin logo on the homepage near "Browse Better."
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#9How will Brave prevent anti-ad-blocking mechanisms from interfering with the page? For example, cbs/abc/nbc seem to detect muBlock and then stop serving content.
This is the most annoying thing about ad blocking going mainstream. It was a rare site that bothered to detect us before Apple got into the game.
Re: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a mistake. Firefox is referenced throughout the documentation. Looks like Brave is built on top of it.
Venturebeat claims it's based on Chromium, but they also seem to be pretty confused because they're calling it "a brand new browser, because (builing on top of existing browsers) would imply limited functionality by virtue of their application programming interfaces (APIs) and less impressive performance gains" http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/20/brave-browser/ So it's Chrome on Desktop, Firefox for iOS on iOS?
It's based on GitHub's Electron (Chromium) on desktop, and Firefox for iOS on iOS: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/172/brave-software