Why would you even use brave? You want to view advertisements just use Chrome. If you don't there's Firefox and ublock origin.
I tried kagi, the results start great and get noticeably better even within the free trial period. I don't have to worry about ads and I've blocked or lowered all poor quality sites on the fly. I sort results by tracker count and find most of the time results with lowest trackers have the best content for what I am looking for. Anything I couldn't find was also not findable with google or bing. I started a year of paid subscription and I don't think I'll ever go back to any ad-funded search or any free search that might be tempted to add ads later.
I really recommend to give it a try.
"All ads are bad, block them... except for mine."
Brave does not do this. Pretty much without exception, anyone using chrome is better served by using brave. It doesnt mean brave is perfect or the best, but holding up chrome as better is a joke.
But now they do.
The only real constraint on what Brave will and will not do is their VC pressures to make money vs reputational damage. And reputational damage isn't all that expensive.
The VC's will be disappointed because Eich & co have said they will never exit through an IPO. They don't want to give up control like Google did.
https://brave.com/privacy/browser/
> Safe Browsing > The Brave Browser automatically uses Google Safe Browsing to help protect you against websites, downloads and extensions that are known to be unsafe (such as sites that are fraudulent or that host malware).
> We proxy these requests through Brave’s servers to reduce the amount of information sent to Google (for example, we remove your IP address) to protect against Google profiling or tracking you when using Safe Browsing.
brave gets me chromium and blocking by default use as disposable browser with history.
Firefox is main and will use that if i want info to by synced.
Chrome is the last resort browser that i'll use if i have to login but is broken in firefox.
Nexusmods CloudFlare keeps blocking firefox but not chrome. Bank site won' let me use firefox.
Except it doesn't block all ads by default at all.
And google keeps threatening to make it not work at all on Chrome. Most recently, yesterday [1], with warning banners harassing users supposedly rolling out on Monday.
[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...
* it has reasonable way of funding, crypto may suck, but it is believable they will not sell my data
* anonymous bookmark sync with multiple profiles. With Chrome and Firefox I have to sign up for each sync.
* Chrome based debug tools
* It is usable without any plugins. In some environments I do not want to install some questionable plugins, that may change ownership anytime! (It is already named "Ublock Origin", ownership already changed )
* Proprietary Video Codecs support out of the box on Linux. Some distros do not have it, and I do not want to enable community repos.
You can rest assured that Brave absolutely will and does sell your data.
> anonymous bookmark sync with multiple profiles. With Chrome and Firefox I have to sign up for each sync.
Nothing at all anonymous about it, firstly. Secondly, you can import/export bookmarks from Firefox and Chrome and do an actual 'anonymous' sync that way.
> Chrome based debug tools
Like.... chrome has?
> It is usable without any plugins. In some environments I do not want to install some questionable plugins, that may change ownership anytime! (It is already named "Ublock Origin", ownership already changed )
No it's not. It's completely unusable if you actually don't want ads.
> Proprietary Video Codecs support out of the box on Linux. Some distros do not have it, and I do not want to enable community repos.
The only reason prop codec implementations are not supported in some (not most) repos is because of licensing/OSS policy... which would equally apply to Brave within those same repos.