• jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Brave is actually very good and seems to have a great blocker

    ps. their mobile browser has also been great on older phones

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        not enabled by default, but if you want to use them, yes

        i haven’t seen a single ad or been annoyed by any crypto shite so far

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          I installed Brave earlier this week and that’s mostly true. There’s some built in stuff that will show by default, notably the toolbar buttons and the notification style alert on the new tab page for one of those things mentioned, but you can just close the notification and remove the toolbar buttons and you’re set.

          That said, I think it’s still in the data monetization market like Alphabet with anonymized tokens, though I don’t remember the details.

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            this is disabled by default, i think that is the BAT system that also uses crypto somehow

            i also made a handful of tweaks to tidy up the UI, easily done in the settings

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        ps. Brave has also built-in P2P and TOR features among other features

        actually an interesting browser

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          Be careful with the Tor features, they allow you to open some onion sites but don’t supply the extra anonymity/security of the actual Tor browser.

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            good point, i think this feature just makes it easier to access TOR domain sites without an extra browser rather than being the anonymity tool that TOR browser is