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A web browser.

https://brave.com/ Yes but it also uses chromium so it updating might need a new rendering engine soon enough.

Is there anything that Chrome does better than Brave?

Who knows? What's Brave? (If you're going to reference something that you clearly realize many people have never heard of, be a dear and include a link next time, will you? I'd never heard of it and had to Google it.)

Brave has advertising spyware built in. https://brave.com/about-ad-rep...

They gotta make their money somehow.

Brave. It's based on Chromium now.

https://brave.com/

Just use a better browser.

(For what it is worth, I am not affiliated with them and don't have any special agenda here, but of course I am posting as AC so there is no reason to believe me. Still, it's a good browser).

You should try this browser I hear its very, very gay-rights friendly. It's Brave!

Surprised that no one has mentioned Brave. Fast, functional, and built-in ad and tracker blocking.

I recommend Brave to everyone I know because it's as great blockers baked in. Works great on Facebook. I can't remember the last time I saw sidebar ads on Facebook.

Except what's Chrome 64 got to compete with it? The Brave Browser?
 
Firesux was put out of its misery years ago by the users who jumped ship in hopes of something better from the Mozzarella Foundation. Le sigh.

Yep. Run ad blockers on a real browser. FF or Chrome. Or for the non technical look at the Brave browser. It has blockers from the EFF built in. This is what I shifted my parents onto. It dropped my required tech help by 90%. Avoid the black boxes (Apple TV, Roku) and their apps. Because of no ad blockers available. You can run Brave on android phone/pad to chromecast and have ad blockers.

https://brave.com/
" Brave Software was co-founded by Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and creator of JavaScript, and Brian Bondy, formerly of Khan Academy and Mozilla. "

Why doesn't anybody pushing brave ever mention what the business plan is?

https://brave.com/publishers/

I am not saying it is a bad idea, I don't know enough about it.

Comments anybody?

quite right - if someone wants to try a new browser more in-line with what Mozilla once offered - I would recommend looking at brave - usable - but needs some tweaks with the bookmark bit.

https://brave.com/

The bitcoin connection is quite important..

https://brave.com/

BraveSetup-x64.exe is 112 Megabytes. The file name does not include the version number.

From the Brave web site: "Money
"Brave makes money by taking 5% of any donations and -- after it is fully implemented -- a small cut of advertising that is placed. Brave even shares some revenue with you -- at least as much as we receive."

There are plans for Brave that involve a lot of complexity:
"BAT: Coming Soon "Opt into the Basic Attention Token platform, a blockchain-based digital advertising system giving publishers a better deal and users a share of the revenue."

https://www.brave.com/

I've moved on to Brave and I'm not turning back.

Here you go: https://brave.com/

Use a web browser that's designed for privacy, like Brave (company founded by Brendan Eich).

See: Brave (browser)
https://brave.com/

Now that they're owned by the Chinese, fuck Opera.

Try Brave. It's very very fast, and blocks all sorts of crap. It's based on the Chromium browser

https://www.brave.com/

I've been frustrated with Chrome's greed lately and would love an alternative.

Palemoon, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Maxthon

Brave gave them the option to get around this by not only paying people to see ads but to openly vet ads to make sure they're malware free. The major advertising companies turned their nose up at it, though he hasn't given up and is still fighting to get the system in place. I honestly expect that he'll manage with a bit of luck create a new ad network out of it. And with luck, will displace the existing companies.

Any type of API like that I expect would be abused and exploited heavily.

You can always try this browser.

LOL! The FAQ says:

5. Why aren’t you using Mozilla’s Gecko engine on laptops?

We were, under a partially sandboxed, multi-process architecture called Graphene. But we did a careful head-to-head comparison and by every measure, Electron/chromium won. We wish Mozilla well, but as a startup, we must use all sound leverage available to us. For web compatibility and in particular Chrome compatibility, this means chromium.

God, it's sad how quickly Firefox has become such a joke. It wasn't all that long ago that it was the best browser around. Now it's so far back it will likely never catch up. And Servo? LOL! It makes Firefox look superb, Servo is so frigging awful!

new project @ https://brave.com/.

Everything we need to know about the sorry state of Firefox is shown by the new Brave web browser that Brendan Eich is creating.

Look at what Brave's FAQ page says:

5. Why aren’t you using Mozilla’s Gecko engine on laptops?

We were, under a partially sandboxed, multi-process architecture called Graphene. But we did a careful head-to-head comparison and by every measure, Electron/chromium won. We wish Mozilla well, but as a startup, we must use all sound leverage available to us. For web compatibility and in particular Chrome compatibility, this means chromium.

For those who don't know, Brendan Eich worked at Netscape, created JavaScript, co-founded the Mozilla project, and was even the CEO of Mozilla as recently as 2014. He has a very long history with the technology behind Gecko and Firefox.

Yet despite having so much experience with Mozilla's technology, his team has gone with Chromium as the basis of their browser. Like their FAQ says, Chromium is better than Firefox "by every measure".

The problem for Mozilla is that while Firefox has become total shit, they have no better alternative to offer. The Servo project is sputtering, at least partially due to it using Rust, which itself is an immature programming language.

I don't know what Mozilla is going to do. The only option available now is to throw away Servo, throw away Rust, and try as hard as they can to get Firefox fixed up. But even that probably won't be enough. Things are looking extremely bleak for Firefox.

Brave beta is just out. A project from the former CEO of Mozilla.
AFAICT out of the box one of the safest and most private browsers around.
Definitely a leg up from the usual suspects.

How the hell can I trust Mozilla and Firefox after this debacle?

You can't, like many other people can't trust them either. And that's one of the continuing reasons that their market share is declining. Though one of the ex-CEO's chased off by regressive whiners over their private decisions, is making a new browser that looks good. Though we'll have to see if that's the case in a few months or not. Source is here of course.

A new browser is coming to protect us from ad tracking and the like..

https://brave.com/

Very simple - for the past 1500 years Christian churches (mainly Catholic, but I haven't seen any others change their ways after splitting) have changed their historical representation of Christ's life to align Christian holidays with non-christian holidays. See, for example, Christmas, Easter, etc. On top of that, many so-called Christians will, without forethought or due tolerance, condem believers of most any other faith to hell. Exclusionary acts like that, or usurption of the rituals of others, or adaption of other's rituals to Christianity simply to increase power base (voodoo is a good example of this) is what builds up the animosity you see towards Christians.

That said, it's interesting how the acts of various Christian churches do not mesh well with actual Christian teachings of tolerance, good will, love, and respect of all humans. It's this dissconnect between the main-stream church establishment (I know, there are some Christian churches that aren't so hypocrtical) and actual Christian philosophy that skeptics, atheists, cynics, and slashdotters will constantly point out. Not to the detrement of Christianity, but as a driving force towards individual Christian betterment. When one realizes the Christian establishment is more political than spiritual, one can then ascend beyond the early bounds of a corrupt church and realize a true life of good Christian values and brother/sisterhood.

Or...maybe it's because there's no beer in heaven.

Up here, it can be demonstrated that polka can also be just as harmful. Who stole the kishka?

Oh give me a fucking break. Just because you can't be bothered to look beyond the top 40 to find anything "good" doesn't mean that good music isn't out there and being distributed by the cartel . I like Brave Combo (Rock/Polka band). Most of their stuff has been on Rounder Records. Guess what? Rounder is an RIAA member. I like Bill Laswell (on SubRosa and related labels), Jack Dangers/Meat Beat Manifesto and most of the artists at Tino Corp, and while I haven't checked, I'd be really surprised if they weren't also distributed by the majors.

There IS good music out there and some portion of it IS controlled by the cartel. What are we supposed to do about it? That's the goddamn point the parent was trying to make.

also see what I recognize as a stock Associated Press photo of Bill Gates

they seem to have purloined the song as well. it might be in the public domain, however. or maybe they paid for it?

anyway, they don't seem to mind taking stuff and not acknowledging where they got it from.

Regardless of your feelings for Microsoft and Gates, you have to respect his philanthropy.

If he donated a worthwhile proportion of his money to worthwhile causes like some of us do then he might be worth some respect.

Spending (the equivalent of) petty cash in an effort to somehow buy good karma is not something we should respect him for. If you've seen interviews with Bill Gates discussing his "charity work" then you'll realise that this is all it is - simply a way for him to buy a profile he hopes will offset his lack of conscience.

Cue Led Zepplin here...