Firefox Focus blocked 23640 ads and trackers. In more than a year of daily usage.
Brave browser blocked 1400 ads and trackers. In just a week.
It’s about 3 times more.
Is @brave really that good at blocking or is it just better at counting ? #Firefox#Brave#browser#privacy
Not only do they have one of the most private search engines, it is now fully independent. Search engines not tied to either Google or Bing crawlers are good for the web in general. 👍
DDG, however, is still reliant on third parties for results, mostly Bing. With Brave's recent change, #Brave#Search is entirely independent.
On a personal level I also just prefer the results I get from Brave Search. I like how they present "discussions" in a separate area for forum/reddit threads and I like their AI summarizer. I also like how Brave has implemented DDG's !bang system, and seems to redirect quicker.
Any of you using the #Brave#search. What do you think? I just switched yesterday because #DuckDuckGo got a lot worse after Microsoft downmodded Wikipedia in #Bing (probably to make space for their shitty "AI"). So far it seems pretty good in general but very poor for local things here in Sweden.
This is a great series of articles by security researcher Mike Kuketz that documents the data transmission behavior of popular web browsers on their default settings, examining the type of connections they make and what data they "phone home" with:
I’ll try to use @brave as my main browser for a week, on both macOS and iOS.
I’m not comfortable with the idea to leave Firefox so I hope to really dislike the experience, but I’m afraid I won’t.
We’ll see ! #Firefox#Brave#webBrowser#browser
Big shout out to #DivestOS team for creating the attached comparison tables! Seems like #bromite and #brave are most all-round secure & private mobile browsers.