A note on the continued usefulness of Brave

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Does anyone else constantly get Brave is not responding messages when flicking between tabs on desktop?
 
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If you are truly care about being ad-free, then you'll still need to install an additional ad blocker like uBlock Origin. There are things Brave whitelists, and things they just don't get. I was getting some YouTube ads with just the Brave blocker.

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Just change it. I'm a privacy weirdo and I still use Google because all the other ones suck. I tried giving DDG, Yandex, whatever chances and they're just shit.
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Yandex is best for some things since it's Russian. Google does censor their results quite a bit. I tried searching Google, DDG, and Startpage for Lenovo schematics. Got shit. Tried Yandex, the first 3 to 5 results were exactly what I was looking for. So Yandex is best for some things.
 
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Sam Losco said:
If you are truly care about being ad-free, then you'll still need to install an additional ad blocker like uBlock Origin. There are things Brave whitelists, and things they just don't get. I was getting some YouTube ads with just the Brave blocker.


Yandex is best for some things since it's Russian. Google does censor their results quite a bit. I tried searching Google, DDG, and Startpage for Lenovo schematics. Got shit. Tried Yandex, the first 3 to 5 results were exactly what I was looking for. So Yandex is best for some things.
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Yeah, but they're dirty ol' communists. You wanna trust dirty ol' communists?
 
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Damnit Jim said:
How does Brave compare to Opera?
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I believe they're both Chromium under the hood, but Opera was bought out by a Chinese firm (Archive) back in 2016.

I suppose since this is the browser shill thread I'll throw out a vote for Tor Browser if Chromium gives you the creeps. As a bonus it also blocks the Google Fonts link since it's mixed content (still links to off-site jQuery if you're very paranoid, though).
 
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So should I stop sending all my BAT to madattheinternet.com and just start sending it to this site?

pretty sure this site was banned from receiving bat
 
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Why not push more for donations since Brave's income seems to have fucked up for you? I mean shit how many TaH do we have?
 
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I’ll give its iOS build a try, I’m not a big fan of the Safari app that comes baked into my phone and it’s fucking Apple. I’m not that big into crypto but if giving the BAT I’ll get from using it supports the site in some form then count me in.
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I thought you were a big fan of Bing? Did something happen, or was I missing sarcasm?
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Wasn’t the site delisted by Bing and other internet search engines for a while?
 
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I feel like I've tried everything; Chrome, DDG, Brave, Firefox, ect and they all have their own flaws/ issues. Slow/ long loading times seem to be my main issue. I don't really care if x sells y things to a third party, I just want something that functions.
 
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When Google throws me a captcha for search results, that's when I switch to Bing.

Apparently, I let my free BAT grants expire, panicked, and then sent the much smaller amount of evil BAT to here. Enjoy.
 
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Null said:
Just change it. I'm a privacy weirdo and I still use Google because all the other ones suck. I tried giving DDG, Yandex, whatever chances and they're just shit.
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I fucking hate Google (as an entity) but they're (sadly still) the only game in town for a search engine that actually fucking works.
 
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Blessed year of the BAT.

Been using brave for a while, it's pretty comfy. It's a really simple way for non cryptofags to donate to the site and might even spark an interest in further exploring alternate crypto-currencies.

Would recommend.
 
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Liber Pater said:
I am curious as to what your grievances with Startpage were. I gave up on Duck Duck Go and Yandex as Google alternatives, but since switching to SP, I have never looked back.
Is there something fucky about the service I should know about, or did you just not like the number/type of results that came up?
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Startpage has been shit for me recently so I switched back to duck duck go.
 
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