On 3/9/25 1:05 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote:
On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I ended up installing Brave. Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will
eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock
Origin (even though it's supported right now). But it has its own
built-in ad blocking*by default*, so you don't actually*need* uBlock
Origin to have a satisfactory environment.
Many of my friends keep recommending Brave, but I cannot get past the
fact that their business model is to strip ads from sites and insert
their own ads instead (if the user opts-in to them). It is one thing to
provide a free, open source, community-maintained ad blocker, it is
another thing altogether to make it your business model to replace
someone else's ads with your own. I cannot fathom how this could be
considered ethical at all.
The browser might provide a good user experience but their business
model is *slimy as hell* and I cannot in good conscience support them in
any way.
Key point: "(if the user opts-in to them)". If the user (myself
included) clicks the readily displayed option to opt out, then you get
very effective ad blocking, combined with exceptional privacy.
Yes, that defeats their income stream, but so be it; because it provides
what I want in a browser.
By the way, I always use their Private mode, but not their TOR mode.
When I want TOR, I use TOR.
Ken
