Comment by ElijahLynn | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ElijahLynn | Hacker News Reader

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Brave is interesting because some non-users have a complete misinformed idea of what people actually use it for. Brave is one of the best things to happen to the web and actually has a chance at saving the web.

Brave allows me to easily donate money to creators. I currently fund the internet to the tune of $10/month using Brave. Someday that will be $100/month.

Brave removes ads "pre-render" so it is the fastest experience one can get. Other ad-blockers remove them after they have already loaded via JavaScript. Brave does this natively.

Brave has features to let users watch ads and earn currency, I don't use that at all. But some do, and it is consensual and fine for them.

Brave has an option called "Private w/Tor" and that is what yabones is claiming that "its users fall for the VPN fallacy". Which may be true for a small percentage but yabones is making a sweeping generalization here by implying "all users", which is not even close to true. I don't even use Private w/Tor mode. I don't consider anything truly private on the web and nobody else should either.

Brave is one of the best things to happen to the web as the web has become swamped with tracking and ads. Brave does remove all those by default.

> Brave removes ads "pre-render" so it is the fastest experience one can get.

Doesn't Ublock Origin remove ads "pre-download" which is obviously faster?

Yes that part is patently false, uBO and other blockers usually block the requests themselves.

Brave users seem to parrot all sorts of nonsensical marketing lingo. I remember being told that Brave is the first browser to support "Web 3.0", with no explanation what was that supposed to mean.

Web 3.0 is probably meant bundled metamask plugin.

> Brave allows me to easily donate money to creators. I currently fund the internet to the tune of $10/month using Brave. Someday that will be $100/month.

Isn't this only for sites "signed up" with BAT with Brave keeping the BAT if the site isn't enabled?

NB: It has been a long time since I've checked out Brave so my info may be out of date.

I have been using it along with Firefox for a while. It doesn't have any of Chrome's worst behavior. When Google starting forcing the Google profile stuff into Chrome I dropped it cold. Firefox is alright. Brave is alright.

> I currently fund the internet to the tune of $10/month using Brave. Someday that will be $100/month.

Honest question - how much does that money actually reach the creators? Brave is sitting in the middle and I assume a. is charging a fee and b. has to be trusted to properly account for the money it has to pay creators.

It's a weird sort of marketplace where supply (content) isn't constrained at all, since it's trivial to duplicate. This means there's limited incentive for Brave to be nice to creators.

Are there any (3rd party, not Brave) stats on how much money creators are getting?

> Brave removes ads "pre-render" so it is the fastest experience one can get.

Tell that to Pi-hole.

Or NextDNS.io, which opens the can of worms of trusting a 3rd party, but I trust the team behind it (for the time being at least) and it's insanely convenient, not being tied to your local network (as with most setups).

Pi-hole is on a whole another level of complexity for installation and maintenance. Good ol' "I don't need Dropbox, curlftpfs is enough"

This does not read as a non biased take on a piece of software from a private company.

So many shills in Brave threads every single time. There have been numerous instances of clear evidence than Brave and its founder are running a scam and Im surprised tech literate people on hacker news (which is an assumption I guess) fall for it. They literally run their own ad network and collect data for analytics on user behaviour. How is the best thing to happen to the web? If you want to give to creators, there are so many other ways to do so. You dont have to do it via a middle man that runs an ad network using a made up crypto coin

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