Brave Browser

[marvin02]

Information from the source:

Brave Ads | Brave

Get your brand in front of millions of users today and advertise on the Brave Ads platform — the world's first global ads platform built on privacy.

brave.com

Check out the white paper linked on that page.

"Engaging the New ‘Ad Chooser’: A co-authored whitepaper from Brave Software and dentsu international."

Providing the link here so those interested can see the info about Brave ads from the source.

 

[foszoe]

Information from the source:

Brave Ads | Brave

Get your brand in front of millions of users today and advertise on the Brave Ads platform — the world's first global ads platform built on privacy.

brave.com

Check out the white paper linked on that page.

"Engaging the New ‘Ad Chooser’: A co-authored whitepaper from Brave Software and dentsu international."

Providing the link here so those interested can see the info about Brave ads from the source.

The key with Brave Ads though is you are in control. You can turn them off.

What is Brave Rewards? | Brave

Support content creators and earn tokens for ads you see in Brave. Use your tokens to buy gift cards, exchange for other currencies, and more.

brave.com

 

[Tactically Fat]

May I suggest Duck Duck Go?

 

[DadSmith]

Another nice thing about Brave.
Noticed some sites require you to accept their cookies, trackers etc. With Brave you can make it so yes you accept all their cookies, trackers until you leave their site lol. Which allows everything on their site to work but once you leave or close out that site those cookies, and trackers get deleted.

I personally do not see how trackers can be allowed in the United States as it is a violation of your privacy. I see some sites ask you to allow then some just do it without permission.

 

[DadSmith]

May I suggest Duck Duck Go?

Duck duck go is a search engine that you can use with Brave browser to help keep things somewhat private.

 

[KLB]

May I suggest Duck Duck Go?

I use Vivaldi browser with DDG as my search engine.

 

[DadSmith]

Finally got an add that I agreed to. I believe I agreed to 4 ads a day to help pay for the browser. Here is one and what it looks like. They always appear on the start page.


Very easy to ignore and go to your favorite websites or start a search.

 

[wtburnette]

I've used Brave for over a year and it's fantastic. Much better than Firefox or Chrome and miles better than the built in MS garbage. On the ad blocking, the way ads are done is very insecure. I don't know if they've changed it since I read about it a few years ago, but basically malware distributors were buying ad time and inserting ads that included malicious software and that made it very difficult to keep from having your computer infected. I've been using an adblocker for the last 10 years. If a site doesn't allow me on with my ad blocker enabled, I just don't ever return to the site. I've never had any issues since switching over to Brave.

 

[JCSR]

Still seeing no ads using Brave. One small thing I noticed is after closing my laptop last night leaving 4 tabs open they reappeared upon start up this morning. No hunting through History or looking for Bookmarks to get my favorite tabs up. I like that since I have about 4-5 tabs I like to keep open. I'm sure you're supposed to close tabs and browsers and shut down properly but I'm kind of a rebel.

 

[eldirector]

Brave is based on Chromium, which is still Google source code. I've been using Opera, which is quite similar.

Anyone happen to know what Windows browsers are NOT based on Chromium?

 

[KLB]

Brave is based on Chromium, which is still Google source code. I've been using Opera, which is quite similar.

Anyone happen to know what Windows browsers are NOT based on Chromium?

Firefox and SeaMonkey, which uses a FireFox source if I am not mistaken.

 

[KLB]

Still seeing no ads using Brave. One small thing I noticed is after closing my laptop last night leaving 4 tabs open they reappeared upon start up this morning. No hunting through History or looking for Bookmarks to get my favorite tabs up. I like that since I have about 4-5 tabs I like to keep open. I'm sure you're supposed to close tabs and browsers and shut down properly but I'm kind of a rebel.

All browsers will do that if you tell them to.

 

[marvin02]

Duck duck go is a search engine that you can use with Brave browser to help keep things somewhat private.

duckduckgo does have a standalone browser for mobile devices, but not the desktop, here's the android version:

DuckDuckGo Private Browser - Apps on Google Play

The free super ⚡ privacy app: web browser, search, email & app protection

play.google.com

 

[KLB]

Whatever browser you use, do not store your passwords in it. Get a password vault and use it instead.

 

[Expat]

I sometimes use the Tor Browser if I am concerned about privacy.

 

[wtburnette]

Brave is based on Chromium, which is still Google source code. I've been using Opera, which is quite similar.

Anyone happen to know what Windows browsers are NOT based on Chromium?

I loved Opera until I found out it was owned by a Chinese company. I switched to Brave after that. FireFox is also problematic, though I don't remember the reasons why ATM.

 

[eldirector]

Firefox and SeaMonkey, which uses a FireFox source if I am not mistaken.

A little duck-ducking, and... looks like there are really only 2 (or 3) browser engines on the market:

Browser engine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Chromium (Blink), used by Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, and lots of others. The most popular on the market, by far.

Mozilla (Gecko), used by Firefox and a few others. Looks like Amazon uses Gecko for their Fire and FireStick browsers.

Safari (WebKit), used by Apple.

As noted above, even Microsoft abandoned their engines (Trident and EdgeHTML) for Blink.

 

[Expat]

I spend 95% of my time on Safari.

ETA: outside of work. Work is almost Edge only.

 

[foszoe]

May I suggest Duck Duck Go?

No, but thanks for asking

 

[JCSR]

No, but thanks for asking

Why do you hate ducks?