Brave Browser: Good or Bad?

I tend to use different browsers for different categories of sites. I use Brave for youtube. Back when youtube was fighting extra hard against ad blockers I found that Brave kept pace with them and seldom had an issue. Just stuck with it for that over the past few years.
 
Haven't seen that. Using actual firefox 160 ad just doing a bit of browsing, CPU usage was very low. (Dell from around 2016) 8 virtual CPUS. I think 4 real ones, not sure. If I play a youtube video, CPU's are still very low.
 
ralphbsz said:
anti-LGBTQ comments he was making in public. Similarly, he got in trouble at the Brave organization for his public comments that were anti Covid response
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I like him more for it. Political dissident. Man of conviction and moral clarity - not a coward. Real doer. Mozilla went downhill from there. And Brave is nice addition.

Brave is fine. I ignore the crypto stuff. Nice idea how to reimburse creators with no ads.
Leo Ai is actually handy - no need to copy questions to some other Ai service.
And most importantly Ad Free, even youtube videos seamlessly AND no risk of dodgy browser plugins.
It even has Tor capability.
 
scottro said:
Haven't seen that. Using actual firefox 160 ad just doing a bit of browsing, CPU usage was very low. (Dell from around 2016) 8 virtual CPUS. I think 4 real ones, not sure. If I play a youtube video, CPU's are still very low.
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···Firefox 160 already came out? or is that still in beta? i'm on 159.0.1 right now
and yes i can confirm that the CPU usage in my end is pretty low as well, although i did compile it with LTO+PGO and a ton of other possible optimizations

DanielBowman said:
It even has Tor capability.
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that one is new to me, maybe they added it in the meantime while i wasn't using Brave (since 2021)
hasn't Tor been shown quite a few times to not be as safe as it looks tho', plus was made by the US government and is subsidized by it?
 
I'm latest as far as packages, 15.1-RELEASE-p6

Code: 
pkg info -a |grep firefox
firefox-160.0,2                Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
Hope that helps
I installed using pkg, so no customizations. After installation, I added extensions for vimium and ublock orig. DanielBowman, probably a stupid question on my part but do you have an adblocker extenstion installed. Maybe it's ads that are eating the CPU. (I realize that's unlikely, but it's just curious that you're having such high CPU from it).
 
scottro said:
I'm latest as far as packages, 15.1-RELEASE-p6

Code: 
pkg info -a |grep firefox
firefox-160.0,2                Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
Hope that helps
I installed using pkg, so no customizations. After installation, I added extensions for vimium and ublock orig.
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interesting, Gentoo only shows 159.0.1 on the rapid slot, quite unusual for FreeBSD to be the one ahead here

DanielBowman said:
That is more than likely that Secret Police camp entry points into the Tor network.
And it draws a target on your back if you use Tor or any VPN, really.
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that's what i thought, thankfully i don't live in the Fourteen Eyes domain, although that's still creepy

DanielBowman said:
On the other hand, at least you ISP or your local hacker is not seeing your traffic. I don't use it but it can be handy.
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for my ISP, couldn't that already be done by using a custom DNS provider? i always set my router to use Cloudflare's
i wonder what local hacker i have tho' xd
 
Not sure if someone here has already pointed to brave-origin (without all the IA and crypto stuff)?

I dont think it can be installed with pkg but wonder if someone got it working?
 
tyoc213 said:
I dont think it can be installed with pkg but wonder if someone got it working?
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Unsure. I use Brave Origin on Linux and one thing that frustrates me is that fine tuning options are unavailable. For example, I wanted to change browser "prefetch" options but the option is in Brave, not Brave Origin. It's stripped down alright, but a little too much if extra config options are removed.

If anyone has Brave Origin working on FreeBSD, please do post! Thank you.
 
I used Brave for a brief amount of time. I agree with the posts above about being paid for ads was a nice idea and should be adopted to other products. I tend to default to Chrome, but maybe that is now a mistake.
 
tyoc213 said:
penguinslayer I was not able to find that in my current brave brave://settings/privacy on freebsd ??? but not sure what to look at?
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tyoc213,​

Thanks for the reply. AI tells me, "Brave already disables page preloading/prefetching" and "the old “Preload pages” control was removed." Disabling of 'DNS prefetching' isn't an option, again, according to AI.

It would appear that a previous search prior to my last post in this thread gave incorrect information, suggesting I could disable link prefetching where now it says that it is disabled and the option/control was removed. Nice.

One AI even apologized to me and said I was right with one query.

AI is pissing me off and I won't post about AI here again. :)
 
FYI
Brave Search Ai uses Claude from Anthropic.
And it is pretty useful.
Much smarter and able to find syntax and options for current versions (i.e. OPNSense) THAN Gemini from Google.
Both Free tier, mind you. But Brave is also anonymous, no login needed.
 
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