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Kim Fuller · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 8:28 am Post subject: Brave browser

Who here has tried the Brave browser? I'm reading good reviews - fast, secure, automatic popup blocking, etc.

Jack Daniel · Cinquecento Joined: 23 Jun 2016 Posts: 585 Location: SoCal

Yes, it's basically Chrome without all the bloat and spying mechanisms. No browser is completely secure, but Brave is much closer to being so.
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Bish · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:49 am Post subject:

Jack Daniel · Cinquecento Joined: 23 Jun 2016 Posts: 585 Location: SoCal

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

Vivaldi is another good Chromium browser, with lots of nice features.

It's by the guys who made (and sold) the Opera browser to the Chinese, and now made this on their own. They already made their money.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:35 am Post subject:

I'm reading and responding to this thread using Brave right now. It seems to look and feel exactly like Chrome.
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Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

An interesting discovery while using the Brave browser for a week now is its invisible to my tracking service. I have visited my site a handful of times on desktop and Android, both did not register a single visit. However, Chrome and all the others do.

Jack Daniel · Cinquecento Joined: 23 Jun 2016 Posts: 585 Location: SoCal

Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

Not according to my stats. Here's what tracked when you swung by and switched between Chrome and Brave.

It should track two separate browsers or, if you're correct, double the page counts.

(Ignore the 6. That's how many times you've visited in 177 days)

Jack Daniel · Cinquecento Joined: 23 Jun 2016 Posts: 585 Location: SoCal

Jack Daniel · Cinquecento Joined: 23 Jun 2016 Posts: 585 Location: SoCal

Dan, I just visited yours site again with Brave, this time with the "shields down" setting. Let me know what you see.

From Brave itself: "One of Brave’s core goals is to protect peoples’ privacy online, and to prevent online trackers from following you around the Web. Brave protects users against many different forms of tracking, including state-based tracking, IP tracking, and fingerprinting (or passive) tracking."
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Dan-O · The Gates of Troy Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638

And that was it! Shields down allowed the browser to be tracked and it does display a Chrome icon. So, you got that right. Wink

I'm really digging Brave.

JohnV · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:18 pm Post subject:

I'm looking at BRAVE on WIKI and indeed ad revenue seems to be a part of their approach, but it's convoluted...
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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

I gave it a try and recently it became slow to start. Anyone still using it?

Lee Gordon · Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 9:00 am Post subject:

I still have the icon on my desktop, but I stopped using it after just a week or two. There was one site I regularly visit that it didn't play well with, and switching back and forth between it and Chrome created some other issues.
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