Posted on 07/17/2023 8:47:53 AM PDT by Paul R.
I would stay away from Google Chrome
I’m open to better solutions.
After funding the PC hardware developers/manufacturers over the last 30 years, I’m firmly living 10 years behind the cutting edge.
I have 3 [and a boat load of other legacy stuff] Dell Optiplex 780s [One at the old house, one at the new house and one in the new house’s detached garge/workshop] rescued from the local University Hospital. [~$20 each. No HD, so they got a SSHD, Linux, and a maxxed out 8 Gig RAM.]
I’m a happy camper....
Or when the well pump* has failed and I have 2 ladies in the house (wifey and daughter-san)...
*In a small “attached” wellhouse, in a freaking blizzard.
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I have used Brave since its first year.
As I type this, I am using the TOR page in Brave.
Some sites don.t like TOR but I have had no problems with the plain vanilla Brave.
Quite a few years ago I dumped windoze for Ubuntu...presently running 22.04 No problems with the combination.
Recently purchased this computer. Store had only windoze reloaded machines and I needed one that instant so I could not wait for a machine from the factory loaded with Ubuntu.
So I had to use Firefox to get to the Ubuntu page so as to erase/delte windoze and download Ubuntu.
For many years I had used Firefox on Ubuntu. Brave had not been developed so Firefox was the obvious choice.
The present version, even though I had used Firefox for years previous to Brave, was so full of crap that it just about ran me nuts . That and all of the stupid stuff windoze made me go through just to get to the point I could use firefox
I did the complete cleaning of the new machine and a start from zero Ubuntu installation and of course, Brave.
I have never had any problem with sites or apps that Brave can’t handle, so why put up with all of that crap in Firefox.
It has been mentioned here that some sites can’t be loaded because of Brave’s Shield feature. There is an icon in the upper right hand corner of the page that allows you to turn it off. When you leave that page and return to the previous page, the Shield Up feature is in force.
As I bought this machine in late fall, 2022, my experience was with a late version of FireFox.
You laid down some rules in your original request, so here is mine.
Don’t ask!
I use Dissenter which is no longer available. I love it. Free. Ads blocked.
I checked out Brave and it looks like a twin to Dissenter. When/if I ever have to choose I’ll go with Brave.
Use Brave...
Love it...
Secure...
Fast...
Mostly use private window with Tor when on FR...
Well — this little refurb-on-eBay Dell is hardly cutting edge (6th gen i7), but I can sell the original RAM (getting a bit scarce and some will want or need to match what they have) and the original SSD, for very close to the purchase price. Some, I’m out the $29 NVME drive, the $33 SATA drive (has enhanced data protection & reliability., etc that added several dollars - money well spent!) and $24 if I go back to 1 RAM stick.
This machine will save me a lot of my most precious commodity: Time (not spent waiting for the computer.)
:-)
Hahaha!
Thanks for the input!
Oh, very good to know that about Opera and the VPN. I will give it a good look later.
Used Brave for nearly ten years. It is reliable.
Brave probably has the best security features, but for me is a pain to use as it always has a long pause starting up from the many, many updates.
Brave user for years. Mostly happy. I still have the random quitting problem once a day or so. Any fix?
I use opera. It blocks YouTube ads without a problem.
Ping for Vivaldi.
Thanks for the Vivaldi lead. I use Opera, and I like it, but as soon as I am able to, I am going to dump it for Vivaldi. I don’t much care for or trust ANYTHING Chinese!
Vivaldi is a US enterprise, is it not?
Taxman Bravo Zulu for your Home Page.
Okay... you’ve got an older version.
Can you find “Help” or “Settings” under the 3 dots; click “Get Newer Version” or “Get Latest Security Upgrade”, with much better features... also, it might be under “About Opera” under older versions.
It appears to me that quite a lot of paywall sites have code that specifically looks for the Chrome-based ad blockers. Brave's is apparently just different enough to require recoding and not very many paywallers want to do that. At least so far. They may catch up but they haven't yet.
I use Bing on computer. I can disable liberal news items and other stuff that I don’t want. However, I can’t figure out how to disable that stuff with Bing on Android phone. So, I use Brave on Android phone and works great.
Interesting...
I'm pretty sure the development team is Norwegian. It is built on the same base that Chrome is--probably freely available Chromium. It has a lot of tabbed browsing enhancements, supposedly implements a lot of privacy. However, it takes some effort to get good at using its built in extras.
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