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

    • godless@latte.isnot.coffee
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      2 years ago

      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.

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      2 years ago

      True concern from a person that just got rid of chrome (finally) and switched to brave, how is it garbage? o_o

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        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.

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        For one thing, Brave’s CEO is an antivax conspiracionist. The browser itself is also not that great in the first place. Better than chrome itself, sure, but still miles behind Edge or Vivaldi (to speak only about Chromium based browsers).