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uxjw | 1 year ago

I’ve been using Brave since Google announced they were going to do this. Blocking is built in and they support ublock origin with manifest v2 “for now” https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

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thesuitonym|1 year ago

Psst, Brave is adware

strix_varius|1 year ago

As a daily user, I really am curious how you came to this conclusion.

Brave is essentially un-googled chromium with ublock built-in. It's available on windows, Linux, osx, and android. I can't imagine how a reasonable person could consider it "adware."

TiredOfLife|1 year ago

So is Firefox.

BLKNSLVR|1 year ago

I've been using Brave for a good couple of years, and the only ads I see are when I open a new, fresh tab, and I don't find that it gets in my way at all. I open a new tab to immediately put an address into the navbar.

Most of the "new tab" ads are pictures, and any branding is generally way down the bottom, a screen's depth away from the navbar where my attention goes.

I'm relatively militantly anti-advertising and I barely notice it (but maybe I'm losing my edge - no pun intended).

Kye|1 year ago

Everything about Brave seems solid aside from the CEO.