I am impressed with Brave's ability to deal with my stupidity. Truly the best AI assisted search engine there is. It's just so minimal and useful. No bloat (yet.) I know this search doesn't look impressive but the fact that it basically always knows what I mean is really a stress reducer.
In terms of recent page indexing & news searches, unfortunately only Google holds the monopoly.
In looking for this news article on Grist that appeared in my news reader ("Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves"), #Brave search, #DuckDuckGo, and #Bing all failed to pull up the article, but #Google did.
This use case is very common for me, so I would love if a #SearchEngine competed with Google on this. For now, I have to use Google for news searches.
"This article isn't specifically about #privacy issues only, it's about promises that are being broken, which might be about privacy. It is also about the lack of user freedom, as in the choice to enable or disable features, such as automatic updates, or forced usage of third party services, or software that the user generally is unaware of or don't have a say about."
Is there a smart way to store browser #bookmarks (internet addresses) that is completely independent of the browser used to access those addresses? The use case is in #nixos when #firefox is broken but I have stored my bookmarks on-line with them to make them available on any device I log into with my firefox account. Can one set up a cloud or home NAS or server bookmarks service that stores the addresses & makes them seamlessly available in #librewolf#brave etc. when logged in to that server?
#YouTube is making the watching experience worse on #Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
I didn't believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it's true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it's Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.
Edit: Due a lot of people saying a lot of different things abt it, I want to say that I'm not 100% sure abt how exactly this works, there is a inbuild delay by Google, but who is actually affected, there are a lot of different opinions abt it. I wasn't able to verify this myself in LibreWolf, but this could be the case due my intensive hardening I did and this is just a result of what I found in the code and what Mental Outlaw and others shared across social media, if you got different or additional infos abt this feel free to comment and I suggest everyone ti also check the comment section.
@voxel@privacy This video explains that it's not just #Firefox users being affected by the delay, but #Safari, #Edge, #Brave and even #Chrome itself. It also has nothing to do solely with the #browser you use, but rather a combination of that and your #ad blocker. #Google's testing this with different groups of people, that's why changing your agent string seems to help.
I fully switched to Firefox a few months ago when Google kept on pushing their "Manifest V3" Chrome policy, now that they continue to push it and remove V2 (and with it meaningful adblockers) from Chrome in 2024 maybe you want to start migrating as well?
Don't go to Brave btw. It's a shit company that keeps doing shady stuff and is run by a homophobe. There are so many browsers, just pick one. (Whether other Chromium-based browsers will keep an interface for effective customization for users around is for you to research. Just use Firefox TBH).
@tante
Unfortunately #Firefox on my android phone is extremely slow on key sites as crashes several times per day. Even with only 4 tabs. It's not much better on my Linux laptop. It doesn't crash but grinds to a halt.
I still use it for some sites for uBlock origin to make them useable. Brave blocks ads but doesn't hide elements.
#Brave with all the ads/wallet stuff turned off is snappy and has a good mobile UI handling 30+ tabs with ease.
It's in Icelandic, but if you use Brave browser (see app store) it has a translation feature that is usable to discern what it is written. #BraveBrowser#Brave
La soluzione definitiva è attivare lo "speedreader" su tutti gli articoli, ma se volete una soluzione meno drastica andate nella sezione Protezione e poi su "Filtri dei contenuti" e attivate le annoyance, anti-newsletter e bypass #paywall clean filters
In alcuni siti (tipo il manifesto) sarà necessario disabilitare tutti gli script dal menu che esce cliccando il leone :brave: nella barra indirizzi.
#Brave does not allow you to block #YouTube autoplay anymore. Even if you individually set it in site settings, it autoplays anyway.
Worse, checking Brave support forums, I find nothing but tone policing responses to legitimately frustrated users, followed by unprofessional public excoriations, bans, and closing the issues with EWONTFIX going back FOUR YEARS.
I've been using #Firefox more again lately, guess I'm shifting over entirely. Browser pong sucks.
Three days ago, the 4th of November, would've been #KHTML 25 year anniversary. 🥳
Hoorrray!
WTF is KHTML?
Chances are you are kind of using it, because #WebKit and #Blink rendering engines are all forked from this open-source project originally intented for the browser of the KDE window environment.
La (quasi) totalità dei siti web traccia gli utenti, quelli di "informazione" hanno paywall, od obbligano ad accettare cookie.
#Brave consente di eliminare automaticamente tutti i cookie e dati di un sito alla chiusura della scheda (#Firefox lo farà, nel frattempo "Cookie AutoDelete").
Per i paywall: Bypass Paywalls di Magnolia 1234.
I Don't Care About Cookie installato sempre + uBlock Origin su Firefox.
Problema risolto (ma i siti che si visitano abitualmente meritano il "finanziamento"). 😁
@ev mai avuto un singolo problema con YouTube usando il browser Brave. Blocca tutte le pubblicità e fa vedere i video senza problemi e senza attese.
Funziona perfettamente anche in siti di streaming tipo streaming community.
In alternativa ci sono le istanze invidious come https://i.devol.it ma serve impostare la risoluzione in HD720 altrimenti molti video (soprattutto musicali) si piantano.
@atbeaune
I do so agree, been looking for a decent browser for yonks, #Brave and #Firefox never pleased me. I came across #Vivaldi a couple of months ago. It's great. Privacy is really very good and important. And the way you can set the display, tabs for instance on the side rather than the top is perfect 👌 @dougpete