What do you think of "Brave"? It doesn't look like it's catching on, but the idea seems good in principle. Is anyone using it?
What do you think of "Brave"? It doesn't look like it's catching on, but the idea seems good in principle...
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Fuck off newfag, don't post if you're just going to mindlessly parrot shit
seems ok, just didn't "feel" right when I used it idk
>the idea seems good in principle.
Explain to me how.
Do so like I'm a child and have no frame of reference on the matter.
Isn't that the one that holds ad spots for ransom and injects its own ads if a site doesn't cough up?
I know what you mean.
There are a lot of websites that make good content but try to support themselves with invasive advertising, which involves a lot of bloated javascript and companies like Google and Facebook trying to track you everywhere online.
Brave's idea is to give readers a way to support websites that produce good content without bloating the web and destroying people's privacy.
Of course you could run ad blockers and script blockers, but you're still benefitting from people having their privacy violated and being monetized, in the usual case, or the content you like disappears in the extreme case where nobody will buy ads with them.
Either way, the web is generally broken and bloated because of all this invasive javascript sites add and the blocking of that javascript.
A cynical way of looking at it. They're trying to create a different, more rational infrastructure.
They also have support for micropayments using bitcoin.
>There are a lot of websites that make good content but try to support themselves with invasive advertising, which involves a lot of bloated javascript and companies like Google and Facebook trying to track you everywhere online.
>Brave's idea is to give readers a way to support websites that produce good content without bloating the web and destroying people's privacy.
But if they're removing the original ads tied to the advertising contract the provider and the website agreed on and injects their own ads, how does this support the original website? Does this not further take money away and sinks the ship that is monitization of the web thru advertisements even quicker?
>But if they're removing the original ads tied to the advertising contract the provider and the website agreed on and injects their own ads, how does this support the original website? Does this not further take money away and sinks the ship that is monitization of the web thru advertisements even quicker?
No, they're trying to get people who would normally use an adblocker to allow ads.
The basic business model is to be an ad broker, promising readers the ads will respect their privacy and offering this market segment as an audience to websites and advertisers.
Like I said it doesn't seem to be catching on. I enabled "brave ads" and went to a couple news sites and there was literally nothing.
A silly idea. Rather than using a browser that replaces one type of advertisement with another, I'm just going to keep using Firefox, and occasionally Chromium, and blocking all ads universally across all sites.
>free-riding on people getting their privacy violated and the web getting bloated
brave also allows micropayments in lieu of ads
That being said I'm using chromium, so...
this
fuck ads
businesspeople are alway yapping about how the market adjusts to circumstances to stay strong and how businesses that dont adjust will fail. Well heres your chance motherfuckers, get the fucking hint and remove all your ads and maybe people will like you agai
Couldn't I just install noscript and privacy badger on firefox and achieve this same concept?
Also is brave the browser written entirely in javascript? Why? Does nobody have a desire in their browser being less resource-intensive than Chrome rather than more?
>agai-
RIP user, assassinated by the big data cartel
I really like the idea but the only way this will work is if they would:
-for now, stop running their own ads
-offer websites to switch to brave ads for free if they unscriptbbloat their websites
this way it would become commercially interesting for websites to stop tracking users and use brave. That way they'll be big within a few years having unbloated the web and plenty possibilities to use their monopoly commercially
>free-riding on people getting their privacy violated and the web getting bloated
I see nothing wrong with having a more enjoyable Internet experience made possible by the stupidity and ignorance of others.
What is this, some sort of resurgence of the candlejack meme, minus actually sayi
No. If stuff can't live without ads, it shall die.
Every browser feels sluggish and clunky when compared to standard Chrome. What is Chrome doing that Firefox and Edge are dropping the ball on?
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Actually, Chrome feels as sluggish and clunky. And it can't be fixed; the underlying technology is cache unfriendly garbage.
The choice is literally botnet vs not botnet.
What browser should I use Sup Forums?
I've been using inox and it's been painless. I literally just symlinked my chromium profile into the inox config directory and it's almost like I just restarted my browser.
Firefox
Is it good even on mobile?
Nah, it can't be helped.
Using faster computers/meme-optimized browsers simply isn't the right way, user.
Now, the best we can hope for is that the web gets killed by the ad companies greed...
Use it exclusively on mobile. Only issue I've had is its not compatible with pornsites