Brave Browser

[Shibblet]

https://brave.com/

Anyone heard of this project? Thoughts, ideas, opinions?

[PJs Ronin]

I was looking for a Chrome/Chromium replacement because I object to Google running 'tests' in the background over which I have no control, and thus looked at Brave. Yeah, nah. Brave uses the same Blink engine as Chrome/Chromium and runs the same tests in the background. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

[Frogs Hair]

Some have inquired about installing it, but as stated above it's another Chromium based browser with built in ad-blocking and tracking protection. I tend to be skeptical of browser speed claims regardless of who produces said browser. Give it a try for a week or two and come to your own conclusion.

[Shibblet]

Some have inquired about installing it, but as stated above it's another Chromium based browser with built in ad-blocking and tracking protection. I tend to be skeptical of browser speed claims regardless of who produces said browser. Give it a try for a week or two and come to your own conclusion.

Tried it from Friday to today... about 5 days. I am switching to Brave as my primary browser, and using Firefox for secondary. Dropping the Chromium.

Don't get me wrong, Firefox and Chromium are great browsers. Brave is definitely faster and snappier. Works great.

[linuxguy2]

I was looking for a Chrome/Chromium replacement because I object to Google running 'tests' in the background over which I have no control, and thus looked at Brave. Yeah, nah. Brave uses the same Blink engine as Chrome/Chromium and runs the same tests in the background. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

Brave is expressly billed as privacy focused. It's headed by the co-founder of Mozilla. I use it regularly. It isn't just someone's little project.
Is there some privacy-invasive function I should be worried about?

[PJs Ronin]

Brave is expressly billed as privacy focused. It's headed by the co-founder of Mozilla. I use it regularly. It isn't just someone's little project.
Is there some privacy-invasive function I should be worried about?
Perhaps I was a little unclear. I don't know what Chrome/Brave/Firefox/etc do with my data, but I assume that because I'm such a scatterbrain their AI systems are thrown into confusion... hence I never get advertising that makes sense. However, those browsers with the Blink engine continuously run beta tests in the background as google developes new browser code.

I've been involved in many beta tests over the years but in every instance those tests were performed with my understanding of the test goals and with my approval for the test to run on my computers. With these Blink tests there is no opt-in or opt-out and the tests can't be sand-boxed or denied. And, they do consume computer resources. I'm a little picky about CPU fan speeds and when I hear my fans kick into higher gear (for no apparent reason) it is always because of these background tests. Yep, I'm so anal that it becomes personal to narrow the field of culprits down.

I liked the Brave appearance and it's snappy response, but the core of this browser is the same as Chromium/Chrome and everything else based on Blink. Using it thus becomes a user choice.

[Shibblet]

Perhaps I was a little unclear. I don't know what Chrome/Brave/Firefox/etc do with my data, but I assume that because I'm such a scatterbrain their AI systems are thrown into confusion... hence I never get advertising that makes sense. However, those browsers with the Blink engine continuously run beta tests in the background as google developes new browser code.

I've been involved in many beta tests over the years but in every instance those tests were performed with my understanding of the test goals and with my approval for the test to run on my computers. With these Blink tests there is no opt-in or opt-out and the tests can't be sand-boxed or denied. And, they do consume computer resources. I'm a little picky about CPU fan speeds and when I hear my fans kick into higher gear (for no apparent reason) it is always because of these background tests. Yep, I'm so anal that it becomes personal to narrow the field of culprits down.

I liked the Brave appearance and it's snappy response, but the core of this browser is the same as Chromium/Chrome and everything else based on Blink. Using it thus becomes a user choice.

Found this in an article. (https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-new-browser-eich-returns-with-chromium-browser-that-replaces-ads/)


The choice of using Google's Blink rendering engine over Mozilla's Gecko would help the browser "hide" and make it harder to be blocked by sites looking to engage in ad-blocking blocking games, Gal said.

[Shibblet]

I liked the Brave appearance and it's snappy response, but the core of this browser is the same as Chromium/Chrome and everything else based on Blink. Using it thus becomes a user choice.

I've been doing some research on this, but I can't seem to find anything that isn't just about rendering. Can you expand on what Blink does behind the scenes?

[1fallen]

Just under 30 mins of facts by the guys from google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=392VTLQyKDc
To ask what goes on behind the scenes would be a very long-in-the-tooth essay. :)
Also I find this informative from time to time: https://chromestatus.com/features#blink

What’s important is that you know the browser engine is the key software responsible for what we’re discussing.
From bytes to characters!

[makitso]

I use the Brave browser on my Android tablet. Overall, it seems to do a better job than other browsers I have used. I also have it install on my Ubuntu systems but only for testing.

[Frogs Hair]

I have installed via snap on Ubuntu and so far so good. It is also set as default on the Windows side of the drive. I really don't need to see a running tally of stats on the start page , is there a way to disable that feature ?

[1fallen]

Hiya Frogs Hair, Do you mean the rewards Tally?

[Frogs Hair]

Thanks for the reply , rewards are disabled . The browser displays blocked ads and other stats.

[1fallen]

Ah Thanks! That's a part of the Shields part so they won't allow a change as of yet anyway to disable or tweak what is shown.:(

[Frogs Hair]

I'm running Brave Nightly now and it does include the option to remove the clock and blocking data from the new tab page.

[SeijiSensei]

I've used Brave for a couple of weeks now and will probably stick with it. I've used Firefox since the original version derived from NCSA Mosaic, but I recently had some problems with slow sound on certain animations like on Twitter.

[Shibblet]

Hiya Frogs Hair, Do you mean the rewards Tally?

I like the stats counter, but I have no idea what the rewards are all about...

[SeijiSensei]

https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

I don't use this at all.

[bunny9000]

Used it for a while, but eventually went back to firefox. Now I'm apathetic to the whole subject.

[ryansenn]

I use it on my Android phone (Oppo). I like it, it feels faster than chrome. It also has that whole crypto thing with the BAT token (ethereum token) but honestly I couldn't care less about it, I just use it as a decent browser.