Has anybody here tried the Brave browser?
November 11th, 2019 at 5:30 PM ^
Using and haven’t looked back. Excellent.
November 11th, 2019 at 5:31 PM ^
I'm not brave enough to try it.
November 11th, 2019 at 5:32 PM ^
I liked it a lot except it seemed really buggy and never got any better. I use Pale Moon and have had zero problems.
November 11th, 2019 at 5:40 PM ^
I use Blue Moon Pale and have problems only when I use it a lot.
November 11th, 2019 at 8:51 PM ^
DuckDuckGo for me.
November 11th, 2019 at 9:29 PM ^
I’m a big DDG fan too
November 11th, 2019 at 5:48 PM ^
I switch between Chrome and Tor. What is the "so what" of Brave or Pale Moon (how are they different)?
November 11th, 2019 at 6:00 PM ^
I've used it, and it does a decent job of blocking ads, pop-under/pop-ups, etc. It uses a Chrome derivative as its base code layer, so it's also reasonably stable.
November 11th, 2019 at 6:12 PM ^
I’ve used it but I got tired of it constantly crashing. Found that getting an Adblock on my phone with safari was just as helpful with ads and didn’t come with nearly as many crashes.
November 11th, 2019 at 6:20 PM ^
No, but all of these ads seem to make my scrolling experience on this site such that I will rename Chrome "Jumpy".
November 11th, 2019 at 6:24 PM ^
Yes, Brave is good.
There's a huge problem with Chrome (and subsequently Brave, since it's based off the bones that Chrome is built off of) coming in the future of disabling ad blocking extensions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232438
I would recommend going back to Firefox with the uBlock origin extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
November 11th, 2019 at 6:59 PM ^
I'm in the process of switching to Firefox for privacy. Firefox has a number of privacy-oriented features I like including container tabs.
November 11th, 2019 at 9:19 PM ^
Firefox with the following add-ons is really all you need.
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Decentraleyes
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HTTPS Everywhere
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Privacy Possum
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uBlock Origin
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put in "medium mode" for additional security
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November 12th, 2019 at 9:47 AM ^
Could you ELI5 what those do?
November 11th, 2019 at 9:22 PM ^
Yep... and use DuckDuckGo for search.
Interesting how difficult Google made it to configure Duck to search from the Omnibar in Chrome.
November 11th, 2019 at 7:07 PM ^
With all the recent ads cluttering up the site through google, I switched over to Brave. It’s been great. No ads and has been running great. I highly recommend it.
November 11th, 2019 at 7:29 PM ^
I've used Brave for years. Works well.
Also you just made me realize why I see all these complaints about ads and I'm like, "Gee, I don't understand, I never see ads on this site..."
November 11th, 2019 at 9:23 PM ^
I've previously not used an adblocker on this site as not wanting to take food off of Brian's table.
But this site at times, especially since 2.0, is downright unusable on account of all the ads.
November 11th, 2019 at 9:33 PM ^
Agreed big time; 2.0 with ads was more like 0.2 for me...switched to DUCK ?.
The adds were 40-60% of my phone screen space...actually started reading other M sites because of it
November 11th, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
Using it right now....seems ok when paired with Google search. Sucked when i tried DuckDuckGo as search engines.
November 11th, 2019 at 8:30 PM ^
That's interesting. Brave is actively promoting DuckDuckGo at their site. You'd think they'd know they have it working with their browser.
November 11th, 2019 at 8:07 PM ^
CHROME!
November 11th, 2019 at 8:25 PM ^
I have been using epic at home and duckduckgo for android. Like them better than chrome for most things.
November 11th, 2019 at 8:37 PM ^
Yes and I love it. Will never go back to the privacy invading and data mining Firefox which used to be a good alternative to the data mining Chrome and Internet Explorer until it was revealed they are also mining and selling. Also of note is the ability to use Tor within Brave in your desktop version. If you value privacy, use Brave.
November 11th, 2019 at 8:49 PM ^
I've been on Brave for 6 most or so. My only issue is that once in a blue moon it seems to "forget" that I want ads blocked, so I have to go into my settings and toggle the block to off, then back to on.
November 11th, 2019 at 11:58 PM ^
Yes, forgets.
Yes.
November 11th, 2019 at 8:51 PM ^
No. I recommend switching to Linux and using GNU IceCat.
November 11th, 2019 at 9:25 PM ^
...and using Tails on USB for a paranoid level of privacy.
November 11th, 2019 at 10:56 PM ^
Naw, usually just use private mode. Seems to work well.
November 12th, 2019 at 12:00 AM ^
I've tried them all.
And then some.
I have my favorites.