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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is Brave the one with the built-in crypto scheme and its own ads?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

actually an interesting browser

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Yup, it's my backup to Firefox if I need a Chromium browser for whatever reason.