Brave Browser Gets A New Update

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Brave browser has been my default browser for a long time now over Chrome. Chrome was starting to get a little bloated and lag as more tracking was added to websites. Including SSL certs being a must but most websites not yet having them also lead me to Brave.

Brave browser is free, you can import everything you have on chrome over to brave with just a few clicks as it operates off of the chrome browser code itself. It blocks tracking codes and some ads (I turn off the ad block on LeoFinance for example or sites I want to show support to. It also defaults sites over to SSL which is a nice plus for security.

Brave prides itself on being a browser that takes privacy seriously as well as security.

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This number used to be a lot more I believe it was at 3 days before my hard drive crashed and burned during one of my trips a few months back. That means this is about 6 months worth of using brave browser. A quarter of a million trackers and ads block in just 6 months! Just think of all that information site were trying to pull from me. It's a bit excessive.

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Braves New Features

A fine line is starting to be drawn and one I hope doesn't get crossed otherwise brave and it's token BAT will most likely go belly up. A new feature called Brave Today is a new aggregator that is integrated into the browser.

This section is suppose to aggerate content based on your actions online. It's why your feeds are so customized on sites like Twitter, Google search, Facebook etc. No longer do followers matter all of your data is instead tracked and like content is shown to you instead.

This new section should only pull content from your machine and not from some database that others can access. By keeping the data on your machine it makes you more in control. However is it walking that fine line? Perhaps a option to opt out of it would be best or better yet the option to optin (leaving the default as not being a part of it) What I hate most about companies is when they auto default you into some new update of theirs.

This is done through machine learning and a new method called "Federated Learning With Privacy" it stores data on your machine instead of on a server and uses machine learning to figure out what content should be pushed to you.

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Braves Soon To Come Features

In March of this year Brave acquired Tailcat which is a open search engine that will be used for what is known to be "Brave Search" it is suppose to be a non-tracking alternative to Google search.

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Do you feel this is a breach of contract when you joined Brave? Or is this type of new tracking system ok?

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I don’t know why brave just doesn’t ditch the token model all together and just run their program via the lightning network would be so much easier and they could do a marketplace for ads a lot easier

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I'm just getting to hear about this browser now as I'm used to Chrome Browser, since this browser blocks tracker and ads it seems great to me, I think I will give it a try and know how fast it is.


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You'll notice a big difference, faster, more secure and less bloat compared to chrome.

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Thanks for sharing the updates, @bitcoinflood! I get that updates are sometimes necessary but we should be given the option to opt out if we so choose. I just got a new phone recently with a bunch of apps that I have no use for. Some of them I was able to uninstall but there were others that I could only disable. We are paying for these things with a certain amount of storage space on them and these apps take up that space before we can even download what we do want to use. So yes, nothing should be able to be forced down our throats whether they think it will help us or not.

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Yep there's a lot of dumb shady things that are always happening in the background where companies use you to make profit while sticking you with some huge bill and for some reason we should be thankful for this?

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So true! But then there is the other side of the argument for us as marketers who can make use of that information in our research. So kind of a double edged sword in a way. However anyone who does not desire these updates should still be able to opt out and not have to pay for something for which they did not ask in the first place. Happy Sunday! 😀
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I started using Brave about 3 months ago. I have liked it so far. The fine line comes in when we want the benefits of customization without being tracked. It is hard to have both. We will see how the information is used, will it be just to benefit us?

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It's a fine line that might be getting crossed, If I am correct this is a team from Mozilla?

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Well I don't know but I honestly don't really look at those default pages as much. Personally I would say I would prefer it not to track me.

Also is the only way to get BAT off the browser still ETH based? I don't withdraw it because of it.

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Love using brave not only for the increased security but also for earning crypto BAT

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