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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
(arstechnica.com)
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This post reminded me to try out Brave. It's based on Chromium but purports to block ads and trackers...
Anybody else use it?
Edit: Interesting. Anyone care to explain the downvotes? I know nothing about this browser other than it purportedly blocks Youtube ads, which are driving me nuts.
Edit2: Well shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
I had no idea about this guy. Ok, so completely not an option.
My brother uses it, just remember to look through the ad settings. There was a toggle at one point to allow their approved ads or something like that.
i tried brave recently after finding out it's open source, and that setting is off by default. ended up keeping firefox, because on android somehow the new tab page in brave is even worse than in ff. too tricky to access bookmarks.
I still to this day don't know how to get back to the tab I was on in firefox-android if I get to the new tab screen. It's been 2 or 3 years since the redesign.
you need to close keyboard, hit the tab icon on the address bar and select the tab. easier way is to open some recent website and either close the current one or swipe from the address bar. it's stupid.
Sigh, thank you
Iirc there was also some drama about the money they collect not going to the promised destination. Anywhere other than silicon valley this might be called fraud.
They still might be forced to follow chromium's manifest v3 ant ad locking stuff though, we'll just have to see.
No I'm pro lgbtq folks having rights
How does this relate to Brave browser?
Edit: I had no idea about the CEO. So yeah, not gonna ever use that.
yep :(
very disappointing all round. on a sliding scale thats not the worst thing brave has done, but given that the entire browser was literally birthed from "we don't want your hate here" its hard to avoid.
Too bad for your little black and white worldview those are the same people against adblockers. The good thing is this world has sensible people like me who could give less of a fuck who's feeling is getting hurt and only care about our browsing experience. The rest can go die for all I care.
What the actual duck are you talking about? I genuinely can't figure it out.
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