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How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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1. darajava ◴[] No.41843762[source]
I don’t get why more people don’t use Brave. It literally blocks all of these annoying things (not only ads) on mobile and desktop and it’s very easy to disable all the crap they add to make money (although I do feel bad and actually writing this made me think to donate if that is an option). Brave search is 80% as good as Google’s too.
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2. tiffanyh ◴[] No.41843790[source]
Some have lost trust in Brave given various reports of them selling users data, which conflicts with their messaging as being the "privacy safe browser".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735777

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3. littleweep ◴[] No.41843879[source]
Good reminder, I’ll give it a download again.
4. rglynn ◴[] No.41843953[source]
Yeah people always complain about ads, I havent seen a single ad in years (except twitch).
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5. botanical76 ◴[] No.41844088[source]
Another option is Vivaldi, I swapped from Brave some months ago and I've been quite happy with its ad-blocking. Plus it's tons more functional IMO.
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6. xnorswap ◴[] No.41847764[source]
I probably shouldn't divulge this since it risks this privilege disappearing, but Twitch is the one place I don't see ads, even though I don't use an ad-blocker.

I think some years ago, I may have had a flag set on my account which stops me getting ads. In the past I've given security@twitch a heads-up about some minor vulnerabilities, so perhaps it was a gesture of good will from twitch.

It may also have been a freak case of falling between the cracks when having "twitch prime" transitioned from ad-free viewing across all twitch to not doing so.

It took me years to realise that I don't see adverts on twitch when I "should", and I don't fully understand why not. I'm not sure who even at twitch I would report it to, as it doesn't feel like a security issue.

7. darajava ◴[] No.41848238[source]
Seems indirect and I don’t really care if they use my usage data.
8. darajava ◴[] No.41848250[source]
I’ll give it a go if I ever get sick of Brave. What makes it more functional? I love how polished and robust Chromium-based browsers are.
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9. botanical76 ◴[] No.41859560{3}[source]
Mainly, I found Brave's settings page to feel very janky. Vivaldi's settings are much more polished and feature rich by comparison. It also has vertical tab support which I now use everywhere, and the E2EE synced sessions is something I use on a daily basis.