It’s likely that Hackaday readers have among them a greater than average number of people who can name one special thing they did on September 23rd, 2002. On that day a new web browser was re…
I don’t like Brave’s leadership or crypto, but the problem for me is that Brave ticks the most boxes
Adblocking
Privacy
Security
Multiplatform
There are browsers that do stuff better, like Vanadium and Trivalent, but those are locked to specific platforms, have poor built in ad blockers, and encourage you to never install extensions for security reasons.
And if I want to avoid the Chromium monopoly, there’s Webkit which still manages to have good security and privacy, but there’s no Webkit browser on Android and on Linux, Gnome Web feels slow to use and doesn’t have a good adblocker.
I don’t like Brave’s leadership or crypto, but the problem for me is that Brave ticks the most boxes
There are browsers that do stuff better, like Vanadium and Trivalent, but those are locked to specific platforms, have poor built in ad blockers, and encourage you to never install extensions for security reasons.
And if I want to avoid the Chromium monopoly, there’s Webkit which still manages to have good security and privacy, but there’s no Webkit browser on Android and on Linux, Gnome Web feels slow to use and doesn’t have a good adblocker.