#1 2019-10-10 14:51:34

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Brave Browser

https://brave.com/

Been using it for a couple of hours. Does what it says on the box.

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Re: Brave Browser

^ How's the default ad/tracker blocking feature against noscript?

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Martin

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Re: Brave Browser

The ad-blocking capability is fairly OK. I see some things in Brave that does not show up in FF + uBlock Origin but not many. I don't know how much script blocking Brave has, not much compared to NoScript I think.

I use FF and Brave in parallel.

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Re: Brave Browser

Vivaldi is another Chromium based browser as well. Anyone try it as well?

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Re: Brave Browser

Vivaldi is another Chromium based browser as well. Anyone try it as well?

Yes, it's pretty good; and Vivaldi also offers an email service that is privacy oriented. They were planning to integrate the email into the browser, but I think they decided to keep them separate.

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DeepDayze

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Re: Brave Browser

Vivaldi is another Chromium based browser as well. Anyone try it as well?

Yes, it's pretty good; and Vivaldi also offers an email service that is privacy oriented. They were planning to integrate the email into the browser, but I think they decided to keep them separate.

Perhaps in a future release they'll integrate the email feature (I don't use it atm). Other than that it's a good browser along with Brave (which I just installed and tested and looks quite solid).

There's a build of Brave for Windows which I may test in my Windows VM.

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Re: Brave Browser

The ad-blocking capability is fairly OK. I see some things in Brave that does not show up in FF + uBlock Origin but not many. I don't know how much script blocking Brave has, not much compared to NoScript I think.

I use FF and Brave in parallel.

/Martin

The thing I don't like in the in-build tracker blockers on both Vivaldi and Brave is that they do not offer to separately block each script like NoScript offers. For eg, on YouTube, NS lists youtube.com, google.com, gstatic.com and doubleclick.net, which I can block individually. Brave offers a complete script blocking button switching which on will block YouTube thumbnails too. Although Brave blocks doubleclick under their 'trackers and ads' (1st link in the shield menu), I am not sure if non-tracking yet malicious scripts come under this list.

Yes, I can use NS with brave, but the point of discussion was the quality of the in-build tracking blockers. But nice to see other privacy features like tor integrated private windows. And it is way faster than tor which makes me think again whether it is a simplified version of tor.

Speed wise, I don't practically find any difference. But I've installed pretty much all the add ons I have with FF in Brave too (except Tridactyl). Will run a web.basemark.com benchmark and update soon.

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