I’m still annoyed that Chrome has gone to mandatory Google login — exactly the same way Android did (and has received enormous criticism for) — and people at Google are acting like they’re surprised people are upset.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
Been using Brave for a while, idk seems okay claims it's saving me time and tor
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Replying to @2018ComeQuickly @matthew_d_green
the desktop version of Brave is less secure than Chrome (it is based on Electron)
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Replying to @spudowiar @matthew_d_green
Figured too good to be true fml
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Desktop Brave is useless - Chromium with UBO installed is far more secure and better at blocking ads and other malicious content. Mobile Brave is only useful because mobile Chrome lacks support for extensions and mobile Firefox is unusably slow.
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Got any evidence we miss blocking stuff uBO blocks? ICYMI, news on “more secure” front end (we use same chromium back end as stable Chrome): https://twitter.com/brendaneich/status/1043597575243198464?s=21 … Brave-core is same code as Chrome, shares blocklists/rules with uBO but in C++ code not JS, adds further defenses.
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BrendanEichVerified account @BrendanEichReplying to @spudowiar @2018ComeQuickly @matthew_d_greenWe forked Electron long ago as Muon to fix things, but now we are (dev channel self-updating builds out at https://brave.com/download-dev ) rebasing on chromium front end & dropping Muon. All extensions work, no Google accounts or sync. Brave sync coming soon encrypts w/ user secret key.1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @BrendanEich @2018ComeQuickly and
Twitter and Facebook ads, for one.
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Yeah, we will add options for first party ads — but so long as we block any tracking capability they have, we try to let pure first party content alone. Fine line in certain cases, and users always have right to block, so we will enable. Thanks for the info.
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I think "first party" gets hazy when the actual site you're trying to use is an advertising business and you are their product. I would not object to first-party, tracking-free ads on a news site...
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But Twitter or Facebook or Google is very different. They're just big enough to do 3rd-party ads in-house as "1st-party content".
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