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Comment by vladstudio | Hacker News Reader

Here's my story with Brave. I am obsessed with browser interfaces, and have tried them all - Safari, Chrome, Vivaldi, Orion, Arc, Firefox. Because of my specific use cases, I always returned to Chrome.

Brave initially turned me off - I did not care about Rewards and Wallet. However, after turning them off, I found that it's basically Chrome (e.g. Figma works fine, unlike Webkit-based browsers), but de-Googled and with ad blocking natively implemented.

I also liked squared tabs more!

Also, here's my custom icon for Brave:

https://filerun.vlad.studio/wl/?id=GzgLxysYndDu4jW73RunWCYEV...

https://www.figma.com/file/vgSnbD1pIzI7AOEbWddiLO/Brave-Mac-...

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FWIW, I used to feel the same when Firefox was trying to make their brand scream “we are hackers” and the UI had extra junk everywhere. But the latest versions are very minimal, so if you haven’t checked in a while you might want to give it another look. And it’s really fast now too.

Agreed 100%. I love Brave now, feels like you get all the benefits of Chrome with anti-Google/ad built in!

Some of your logos in the second link just look like Beats by Dr. Dre

That's the thing with minimalistic icons I guess. very simple to make something that's already exists

Yeah I actually meant to only link to the last one! (I removed all other versions).

Have you tried Arc? (https://arc.net) because I'm with you, re: browser interfaces. Couldn't really get Brave to pull me enough since it was pretty much the same. But with Arc, I'm 1 month in and uninstalled Chrome entirely now. Would be so upset if I could no longer use it anymore.

> However, after turning them off, I found that it's basically Chrome

Why not just use Chromium directly if you're immediately shutting off those features?

  1. Profile sync is client-side encrypted and doesn't require an account with anyone
  2. Built in support for tor, ipfs, and webtorrent 
  3. Built in support for blocking social media embeds and tracking
  4. Easier access to useful settings that would usually be buried in chrome 
  flags (disable drm, always show full url, etc..) 
  5. Mobile app has a way better UI for tabs
  6. Built in ad, script, content, cookie, and fingerprint blocking

What about Opera GX, the gamer browser.

Owned by a Chinese group now, which is an issue for some people, especially those who value privacy.

I mean GP was focused on interfaces and UX, not privacy.

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