I’ve read some things online about it all but I’m not a total IT boff. Is it really true that Brave browser won’t be able to block ads once the changes are made next year?
Ps. I use Firefox with uBlock but my SO and most of my clients absolutely love Brave
Brave is absolut garbage anyway. Force them to use Firefox over security concerns.
Can you provide reasons for your claim? I’m curious to know what makes Brave garbage
Chromium, The company behind it… How it looks… Shadiness.
Fennec is even better than Firefox, it’s the same source but recompiled to allow all add-ons in the main app. So basically a stable Firefox nightly, if you wish.
It’s maintained by the folks behind the f-droid app store themselves, so arguably a highly trusted source.
Sync to Firefox desktop fully implemented and working.
I’ve been using Mull, a fork of Fennec
Oh nice, I’ll check that out as well. What would you call the core differences?
Supposedly its got more security/privacy/anti-tracking. From what i can tell there is no major differences besides it using this configuration user.js by default
Ah nice, sounds great. I’ll test it over the weekend when I got some free time.
True concern from a person that just got rid of chrome (finally) and switched to brave, how is it garbage? o_o
One thing that rings alarm bells for me is that they have a built-in adblocker, but you can enable Brave’s ads instead and get a cryptocurrency reward. Brave takes 30% cut on the ads they show this way, so they are essentially replacing the website’s monetization with their own monetization. Kind of scummy, and it being a cryptocurrency also looks grifty.
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ (See “what % of ad revenue”…)
Secondly, the founder has really awful politics, but I will leave that to the reader.