I literally use Firefox ONLY to not support the V8 engine/chromium monopoly, even though the scrolling on it sucks balls. We can't have just one engine. I liked Brave, but I won't use it. And I hate that 😒
@nikto nic I use both firefox and brave, and brave does have the middle mouse scroll as well. Idk if i had to change a setting or not but it works. I just checked.
@nikto nic I got what you meant. it's true it's not enabled by default on linux. you can change some settings in x11 from what I've seen from my research but never tried it
@@orkhepaj i personally use it without hassle for massive discord bots via the discord.js library on node.js, i have tried getting into typescript but it never clicked for me, honest to god never ran into any annoying issues with javascript so i suppose it is mostly situational, i have written a lot of lines of code and it has worked flawlessly so that misconception is false! although cant help but notice node.js is stealing the spotlight for javascript development heh
@@Zephyrus0 well until i go professional in the field because im personally not into full web development ill never know, which may or may not be a bad thing lmao
I really want to support FF but Brave is such a great alternative. It does feel faster, no problem loading videos and apparently open-source while also considerate with others honest need to monetize. Some add ons aren't allowed on Chrome based browsers and that for me makes me realize FF is indeed LIBRE and not just free or fast. My point is: why do you think FF is better than Brave? Can you elaborate on this difference and homogeneity?
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@An A. Open source does not mean it is free of power struggles.
@An A. The Linux kernel is actually controlled by the community while Chromium is one of those things that Google keeps open-source to avoid the PR nightmare that would come with closed-sourcing it
Been using FF since it was Mosaic, I don’t anticipate anything changing my mind at this point, but Brave is the first alternative I’ve considered. I refuse to put google apps on any of my devices, which is a pain for sites that don’t render properly, but Brave has solved those rare instances.
@@TheLinuxEXP I've been curious and didn't know an appropriate place to ask this, but this thread seems somewhat appropriate 😃 Being from France, I don't think that you are a native English speaker, but your English is incredibly good! Did you live in an English speaking country or grow up around a lot of English speakers? It's nearly perfect
@@luckysxm It's not so much about avoiding tracking but about isolating your session cookies. That way you could have, for example, two google accounts open at the same time, in the same browser. You can't do that without tab container. This is really useful specially for people who work from home. Let's say I want to have my work-related account and my personal account open at the same time. And not just for google. It's useful to keep any web service that requires login isolated from each other.
Nick, I'm constantly impressed by your technical chops, the solid work you put into these videos, and the usable information you present. I know you probably don't have any interest, but I think you'd be a very good fit as a PM (Program Manager) at one of the big tech companies.
@thefallenshadow Ah the reddit privacy schizos comes with the obvious lies. For anyone wondering, Brave doesn't do any of these things. Everything here are complete misinformation.
Vivaldi all the way. It's smooth, fast, has everything you need, mail, calendar, notes, feeds, out of the box picture-in-picture mode, tab stacking, a page actions feature that has CSS debugger and a bunch of filters, capture page, take a break, and web-panels!! and widely customizable.
Brave sync feature is really buggy. Which is why I switched back to Firefox both in my Linux Mint and Android after Firefox redesigned itself and it has been working really fine for me.
Your videos and comedy keep getting better and better to the point that I kinda feel bad watching with uBlock Origin... 1) Keep using Firefox because it's FOSS and most importantly not Google. 2) Brave sounds like a good replacement for chromium when those pesky sites don't load properly in Firefox. 3) As a native English speaker ('murica), your accent is extremely impressive! 4) Don't bang Google! lol
You can't even take a screenshot without add-on. And if you want to get BAT you have to register with your name and address. Privacy... And they don't have tab containers or even good add-on for that.
I've been using Brave solely for the BAT rewards. If I'm going to browse the internet then why not make money from something I'm already doing? So far I've made about $150 in BAT.
How have you made so much i have been using it for about a year and don't use it that much to be fair but i only got like 10 dollars i even have it set to the max amount of adds
@@killertigergaming6762 BAT is a joke. You can use it for a couple of months and only make merely a couple of dollars (unless you have a website and people "tip" you). Brave shows you ads to your desktop/phone as a notification, they make a ton of money and you make nothing.
You can already add it, just go to brave search, right click the url, and select « add Brave » and then you’ll be able to use it as the default search engine :)
I'm a Brave + DuckDuckGo guy myself. I could never get into Firefox and I hate Google. Not to mention ads. DuckDuck gives the best search results in my opinion. The browser is a matter of personal taste.
Contraband of cheese and bread? I thought it was more salted caramel and buckwheat pancakes... Your videos are getting better, and they were already really good! Thanks Nick
Wait, shouldn't it be the opposite? 🤔 By the way, listen very carefully, I shall say this only once: The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies is at my place. 🤫
Braver is also a good fork if you don't like BAT and some of their features. Hardened Firefox is nice, but I'll always recommend Brave to normies because of it's great default settings.
I just moved back to brave, I was getting those "white flashes" when scrolling up and down the comments to the video again in chrome and chromium edge. Brave doesn't have this issue with white flashes. Browser is so slim and fast and works with all extentions, it even looks at your chrome install and copies everything over. pretty nice.
Been using Brave for a couple years, most of the time as my main browser. My main gripe is still sync, as it still doesn't support anything but bookmarks on the iOS version (that and the UI on iOS is really inferior to Safari's). Brave Search has honestly surprised me as well!
@@TheLinuxEXP you can't actually use the crypto feature of the browser on iOS because apple has some stupid rules on there appstore preventing them from doing it it is one of the many reason why i plan on getting a android phone instead
If adds were kept to a reasonable level on most website, including UA-cam, most would not even think to use add blocking. Unfortunately, the bombardment of adds make many sites totally unusable, so a user either stop navigating those sites, or use an add blocker; in either case, revenue stream stops. On a side note, I use to watch UA-cam videos on my TV using the included app. Lately, the shear bombardment of adds became unbearable, to the point where I not only stopped watching UA-cam on the TV, but I removed the app entirely. It had become worst than regular live TV, not only is there more adds, but, unlike live TV, they just cut in without any rhyme or reasons.
not had the urge to try out the new search yet but it's nice to hear how it's coming along. Been pretty pleased with brave overall, due to how easy to set up it can be for non-techy people. Sent you a few bat for your honest take on the whole thing o7
What I want to know the most is what prevents Google from simply saying, "From now on, if you want to continue to underpin your browser product with Chromium, you may NOT block ads!"
Reminds me of a coworker showing me Brave sometime over a year ago; we put it up vs Firefox + ublock origin as his bragging points were speed from its built in adblocking that listed how much time it saved. I 'think' I ran firefox with default blocklists but may have hit every ubo checklist and it was a slow connection. Brave loaded each site slower that we tested even if ubo didn't brag about time saved so I had his attention; was based off of wallclock timing for when page still showed it was transferring data through page changing or browser status.
Brave search is really good, I switched from DDG and it's incredible how much more relevant are the results I get. It's almost like Google. Can't stand Brave browser tho, Firefox is still my choice there.
for me, ungoogled chromium is the best middle ground for everything i need, web browsing, watching youtube and maybe some legacy flash games if i need it
My biggest reward that I got by switching to Brave, is that Facebook hogs something like 10x as much memory (a hole somewhere?) on Chrome or Firefox and accordingly stalls Windows long before any problems appear with Brave.
I still use Firefox with DuckDuckGo or Qwant, but started since last year using Brave mainly as a Chrome based Browser, since depending only on one engine isn't something I like and Firefox is one of the last one surviving the "We are Chromium based browsers"
He's using KDE but that's heavily customized (as it should) and it looks pretty nice. As for the OS i think he said that until Elementary OS 6 comes out, he's gonna be using Manjaro which i think it is, but who cares about the base.
@@r4d1cxl19 thanks for the info! I'm still rather "new" to Linux(meaning I've been using it for a while but I don't do heavy modding) and I was wondering because I know he loves Elementary but this felt clearly different. I'll have to get into modding myself sooner or later, his desktop environment looks gorgeous :)
At 4:28 you claim that Brave takes the choice of blocking ads or not away from the user. That is incorrect. While ad blocking is turned on by default as you stated, it is easily disabled by clicking on the lion head insignia at the right side of the address bar. From there I can control the ad blocker for that page or I can follow a link from there to the settings to control the ad block across the entire browser. So I, the user, very much have the choice of whether or not to block ads in brave.
Hey Nick, what about the decentralized Presearch engine ? IF it ever makes out of beta so that it's actually decentralized, could it provide an alternative to Google / Brave ?
Adding to the speed point of yours, Here on my network (India) DDG is noticably slower, while Brave and Google are instantaneous. So the speed might just be because of servers locations and traffic.
Nice work Nick. keep up the posting and the humour. brave has been my go to for a fair while. I have recently switched to the portable version because the browser is still in beta. updates cannot be controlled through settings on the full product and each update resets many settings that I prefer it didnt. some suggest a dark motive. e.g. offer to save passwords, turn bat tokens back on. they claim that because it is still in beta that this is the case. that it has been robust and still in beta for over a year suggests it isnt in beta but is deliberately kept in a state for control.
On linux no chromium browser support kinetic touchpad scrolling for like windows , so for me they are no go. The firefox support it. Not out of the box but its very easy to configure
Are there options to have the browser menu be text instead of icons and tabs on the bottom in Brave? I've stuck with palemoon for these options.. except for youtube because palemoon doesn't have an adequate youtube addon's collection - I'm using firefox for youtube.
Going Brave to avoid Google when the browser shares the same engine never made enough sense for me; even if its clean, it just feels like its giving up and joining in, not unlike Microsoft doing the same damn with Edge.
The end of the video is exactly the reason why I donate to Mozilla and keep using FF. I have no problem with websites so far, but my scope of internet usage is quite limited. Thanks for the video, though!
@@killertigergaming6762 It should be noted that Firefox's philosophies are often for the good of the internet. Most things they promote are well intentioned. Even the controversial opinions they have are often out of horrible events that happened rather than them just being jerks. It's more of a flawed opinion rather than them actually doing something bad (and hating on a person for having an opinion is not a good thing in my opinion). Compared to everything else, firefox is much more trustworthy. And frankly, it's the only alternative we have to these big corporations.... so supporting it is supporting the freedom and rights of the internet.
My only two problems with Brave so far, after using it for a month on an Android tablet are these... Brave rewards doesn't serve enough ads. I have it set to 5 ads an hour, and most of the time, it doesn't manage to give me 5 in a day. My other problem is may not necessarily be a problem with Brave. Android is still new to me, so it could Android. But... The Android system navigation bar at the bottom of the screen does not switch to night mode with the rest of the Browser. It remains glaringly bright white at all times. Which is a horrible experience when trying to watch video with dark scenes. I know that the Android navigation bar can go dark in a browser, because it does so in Google Chrome. An advantage Brave has over Chrome on Android though, is that it even has the option to block ads. You have no such choice on Chrome for Android. You may want to consider testing on multiple OS. Desktop and mobile builds are slightly different. I've also been using Brave Search, and I find the results excellent. I didn't notice any problems with search times. Maybe I'm just used to sluggishness because of certain devices I use. I never found myself waiting for a search long enough to mentally make note of its speed as unusual or annoying. I did encounter a tiny cosmetic problem with Brave Search. In the image search mode, on the results page, whe. you scroll all the way to the end of the results, there is a little message asking for feedback on the search engine. The problem with this, is that the message can be placed on the same row of elements as the image results, so it pushes the last row off center. This is obviously THE WORST POSSIBLE THING! Hopefully it's fixed before too long. It pains me. I actually like the search results more than Google. They seem cleaner and more relevant. Even with searches that I expect to give it trouble. I suspect Google's results are skewed somewhat by ulterior motives, giving dirtier results. Also, I swear I'm not obsessed with dirt! I coincidentally had cause to use that kind of phrasing.
This whole crypto crap in Brave really bugs me, completely independent from the ad blocking. Blockchain is a cool technology and decentralized finance could be great some day but current crypto currencies looks a lot like Ponzi schemes and peddling them like that seem a bit shady to me. No intrinsic value and you only get money out of it of somebody buys your coin for more money. They're speculation objects, not currency. And yeah, Chromium hegemony. Also Firefox is still pretty good, have almost no issues with it. The pop-up blocking can be a bit aggressive (unless you frequently visit shady sites it's just useless because you actually want all pop-up to open because it's an OAuth windows etc.) but that can be toggled.
@Salifx "Regular" money is backed by government violence, e.g. the Police, Military etc. The government "promises" that if somebody screws you over in a dollar/euro/whatever transaction they'll go after that person (screws you over as in illegal, not talking about morality here). It also gains legitimacy by the government collecting taxes in it. Basically if the Gov accepts it for taxes it must be the official money. Not saying Gov violence is a great way to do things but it's certainly more than what it is for crypto, which is basically just hype. Put simply, if people stop caring about some coin it'll loose all value whereas for the USD the US Gov will make you care about it. Sure, in theory if everybody stopped believing that it wouldn't work anymore but that's a loooooot less likely that it is for some random coin or even Bitcoin. I mean you can't possibly call something that fluctuates as much as BTC a serious currency. Also the Ponzi part doesn't just come from the lack of intrinsic value, it also comes from the need of somebody to buy you out in order the get anything from it.
No intrinisc value doesn't really matter real money doesn't have any intrinsic value its about what you can get from it and you can get quite a bit from it.
@Salifx I explicitly wrote that I'm not saying the system is good as it is. Just explaining why it's more stable as thus useful as a currency than crypto coins. If there's a viable non government controlled (decentralized) alternative at some point, great. Just saying that crypto in its current state ain't that.
Hey illuminator I see your perspective but I have a few videos for you if you ever want to see another perspective to it this is one of the best and greatest opportunities to make some real money off this and you're right a majority of them are Ponzi schemes but not in the original sense of one they're just not going to be adapted and used more widely the current issue is government versus decentralized for the people currency that's the problem that's why John McPhee went missing and was probably killders being tortured we don't know he could have faked his death it's hard to say giving the money and what he got involved and his speech is going against the government and giving people power in his speeches the government doesn't like that ever so they take people out like that and they usually shoot them in the back shoot them in the head or make it look like a suicide. A majority of the articles you will read on them are owned by state-funded operated or affiliated organizations that control the narrative perspective and spend the story the way they want to fit their agenda and they will always give you a fraction of the truth of the full story especially here in California with such people like Chris doner, or in texas the victims of Waco and the federal government etc. All they have to do is kill you and then they can come up with any story and who are they going to believe the person alive or the dead man. So the real Ponzi scheme is that a lot of these cryptos might already be owned or being infiltrated by the government to have more control once more than half of any crypto is owned by one entity or government it's already game over just like in the same sense all you need is 5% of the population to be into anything and you can't stop it what happened when 5% or more of the population were into alcohol may try to ban it etc
@@TheLinuxEXP from brave's website, the first thing after the video thing: Brave Shields For Privacy Block data-grabbing ads and trackers I think it's kind of explicit.
loving the new humor nick. adds a whole new dimension to the videos
Thanks :) It makes making them more personal, and more fun!
@@TheLinuxEXP the right kind of cheesy
Contraband Cheese got me giggling for the rest of the video!
😅
@@fssofdeath what about Saucisson? 😆
I literally use Firefox ONLY to not support the V8 engine/chromium monopoly, even though the scrolling on it sucks balls. We can't have just one engine. I liked Brave, but I won't use it. And I hate that 😒
@nikto nic I use both firefox and brave, and brave does have the middle mouse scroll as well. Idk if i had to change a setting or not but it works. I just checked.
@nikto nic you can’t scroll? Wtf are you talking about?
I use firefox on my linux box and chrome on mac.
@nikto nic I got what you meant. it's true it's not enabled by default on linux. you can change some settings in x11 from what I've seen from my research but never tried it
@@maskedvalerian1095 mac cringe
How can you beat the man on his own game?
Context: The creator of Brave aka creator of JavaScript
js is so bad:P
@@orkhepaj genuinely curious, how so?
@@orkhepaj i personally use it without hassle for massive discord bots via the discord.js library on node.js, i have tried getting into typescript but it never clicked for me, honest to god never ran into any annoying issues with javascript so i suppose it is mostly situational, i have written a lot of lines of code and it has worked flawlessly so that misconception is false! although cant help but notice node.js is stealing the spotlight for javascript development heh
@@barelyaiden you would know soon that js bugs are a disastrous in production.
@@Zephyrus0 well until i go professional in the field because im personally not into full web development ill never know, which may or may not be a bad thing lmao
I'm still reluctant to use a chromium based browser, at least to support a more heterogeneous web.
I agree with you. I've been using Firefox since it's Netscape days. I remember very keenly how bad the alternative, Internet Explorer was.
Same. I'll stay with firefox till it dies.
I really want to support FF but Brave is such a great alternative.
It does feel faster, no problem loading videos and apparently open-source while also considerate with others honest need to monetize.
Some add ons aren't allowed on Chrome based browsers and that for me makes me realize FF is indeed LIBRE and not just free or fast.
My point is: why do you think FF is better than Brave? Can you elaborate on this difference and homogeneity?
@An A. Open source does not mean it is free of power struggles.
@An A. The Linux kernel is actually controlled by the community while Chromium is one of those things that Google keeps open-source to avoid the PR nightmare that would come with closed-sourcing it
I'm using Brave with Ecosia and I love it! 🥰
Man, your humor level is very high, literally laughing out loud at "banging google".
Thanks 😅
don't forget about what happened to dad... (and the desktop folders I presume)
Gonna use Tor to explore the dark web for bread and cheese!👨🍳
Best place for bread and cheese
Look out, the french goverment has hacked the dark web. They are looking for the illegal bread-people.
people actually sell bread on the black market in my country lol.
if they were more tech savvy they'd move to onion sites for sure.
I've seen you are now putting jokes into your videos, love them ❤️
Thanks :)
yeah not bad , we need more french jokes
4:24 You can disable the ad blocking on Brave entirely if you want, it's just enabled by default. Just disable the Brave shield.
Yep! Or just use quick settinfs
2:54 I knew what this QR code would lead to, but still had to make sure XD
Hahah it was an obvious one, but still pretty fun 😅
@@TheLinuxEXP Of course I had to check it too! 😂
Well, Nick will never let us down :P !
I am never going to let you down
Let me guess: Rick roll
Been using FF since it was Mosaic, I don’t anticipate anything changing my mind at this point, but Brave is the first alternative I’ve considered. I refuse to put google apps on any of my devices, which is a pain for sites that don’t render properly, but Brave has solved those rare instances.
ah yes, my favorite baguette UA-camr
Baguette fromage omelette
@@TheLinuxEXP I've been curious and didn't know an appropriate place to ask this, but this thread seems somewhat appropriate 😃 Being from France, I don't think that you are a native English speaker, but your English is incredibly good! Did you live in an English speaking country or grow up around a lot of English speakers? It's nearly perfect
@@whotyjones I'd love to know too
As long as any chromium based browser doesn't come up with a suitable replacement for container tabs I am sticking with firefox.
There's an extension called SessionBox that replicates the container function in chromium
container tabs?
container tabs? x2
@@eepy_catgirl they still track you with browser fingerprinting so you're still screwed. Use multiple browsers instead.
@@luckysxm
It's not so much about avoiding tracking but about isolating your session cookies. That way you could have, for example, two google accounts open at the same time, in the same browser. You can't do that without tab container. This is really useful specially for people who work from home. Let's say I want to have my work-related account and my personal account open at the same time. And not just for google. It's useful to keep any web service that requires login isolated from each other.
Nick, I'm constantly impressed by your technical chops, the solid work you put into these videos, and the usable information you present. I know you probably don't have any interest, but I think you'd be a very good fit as a PM (Program Manager) at one of the big tech companies.
Thanks a lot for the kind words :) Yeah, I wouldn’t want to work there, I think.
The ethics and morals of these companies just aren’t up to par, IMO
it's sad/funny how the statement at 5:15 is so accurate.
Some brasilian cheese makers were arrested just this week :/
Damn
You are becoming one of my favorite channels!
Thanks a lot :)
I liked brave until they bloated it with their own services. I'm now back to FF and happy with it.
You can have both why limit yourself to one browser.
@thefallenshadow Ah the reddit privacy schizos comes with the obvious lies. For anyone wondering, Brave doesn't do any of these things. Everything here are complete misinformation.
@thefallenshadow well your ISP might be using google for resolving dns queries ....
@@rwbyn9761 ah, found the average /g/ brave shill
My favorite browser is Vivaldi... There is So MANY costomizations and many more features
It’s close sourced, but ok
@@therealslimaddy so is UA-cam
@@finnbarm when did UA-cam become a browser
I feel like you can customize Firefox more with userChrome.css
@@finnbarm youtube isnt installed on my pc
2:50 was funny 2:55 was good as well but what was truly amazing was the place you posted it from.
Vivaldi all the way. It's smooth, fast, has everything you need, mail, calendar, notes, feeds, out of the box picture-in-picture mode, tab stacking, a page actions feature that has CSS debugger and a bunch of filters, capture page, take a break, and web-panels!! and widely customizable.
Brave sync feature is really buggy. Which is why I switched back to Firefox both in my Linux Mint and Android after Firefox redesigned itself and it has been working really fine for me.
I didn’t have issues with it, but I’ve only used it for a month
Using Brave as secondary browser and Firefox being the primary is perfect.
firefox went full woke and wants deplatforming and censorship. uninstall that garbage.
@@countbleck35 Yeah, also by default tracks you more than Brave
firefox has default telemtry
Firefox takes too much RAM on my system
Use LibreWolf
Your videos and comedy keep getting better and better to the point that I kinda feel bad watching with uBlock Origin...
1) Keep using Firefox because it's FOSS and most importantly not Google.
2) Brave sounds like a good replacement for chromium when those pesky sites don't load properly in Firefox.
3) As a native English speaker ('murica), your accent is extremely impressive!
4) Don't bang Google! lol
Thanks :) That’s what I use Brave for, a replacement when Firefox doesn’t work!
Loved the shudder of disgust when taking the name Edge 😂😂🤣
You can't even take a screenshot without add-on. And if you want to get BAT you have to register with your name and address. Privacy... And they don't have tab containers or even good add-on for that.
Ok all the jokes were corny but this one caught me off guard 11:13 🤣🤣🤣
I've been using Brave solely for the BAT rewards. If I'm going to browse the internet then why not make money from something I'm already doing?
So far I've made about $150 in BAT.
HODL
How have you made so much i have been using it for about a year and don't use it that much to be fair but i only got like 10 dollars i even have it set to the max amount of adds
@@killertigergaming6762 BAT is a joke. You can use it for a couple of months and only make merely a couple of dollars (unless you have a website and people "tip" you). Brave shows you ads to your desktop/phone as a notification, they make a ton of money and you make nothing.
@The Linux Experiment
Which distro are you using
Manjaro KDE :)
The best Linux channel now with great humor =
Thanks! No, it’s Manjaro KDE
Now all we need is Brave Drive
That would be cool!
There's already protondrive. Isn't that good?
For maximum just use your own NAS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Honestly I like theme consistency of Brave. If it's dark then it's dark, I didn't found a way to make chrome or chromium perfectly dark
I'm more of a Firefox + DuckDuckGo guy
That’s what I was using before :)
Used to use DDG until ads started showing. Thanks Brave.
By the way, will Brave Search be added to Firefox? I'd love to keep Ffx mixed with that one.
You can already add it, just go to brave search, right click the url, and select « add Brave » and then you’ll be able to use it as the default search engine :)
@@TheLinuxEXP @Ugly Didn't knew that one, thanks pals!
I'm a Brave + DuckDuckGo guy myself. I could never get into Firefox and I hate Google. Not to mention ads. DuckDuck gives the best search results in my opinion. The browser is a matter of personal taste.
Contraband of cheese and bread? I thought it was more salted caramel and buckwheat pancakes...
Your videos are getting better, and they were already really good!
Thanks Nick
Thanks a lot :) I can’t do salted caramel contraband, it’s everywhere here 😅
Love ur videos from Nepal since 2019 1st comment
Nice :)
+1
Hi, 💕 from India
What DE and theme are you using?
It looked like KDE with latte dock and edna theme maybe wrong tho
I use brave with the Ecosia search engine personally;
The way the video got really really dark for a split second and then it went back to normal had me crying 😂😂😂😂
Haha sorry, that’s just my dark sense of humor 😅
@@TheLinuxEXP please never ever change that 😂
I bet you hide your cheese in Van Clomp paintings.
Wait, shouldn't it be the opposite? 🤔 By the way, listen very carefully, I shall say this only once: The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies is at my place. 🤫
How do you know??
Braver is also a good fork if you don't like BAT and some of their features.
Hardened Firefox is nice, but I'll always recommend Brave to normies because of it's great default settings.
I just moved back to brave, I was getting those "white flashes" when scrolling up and down the comments to the video again in chrome and chromium edge. Brave doesn't have this issue with white flashes. Browser is so slim and fast and works with all extentions, it even looks at your chrome install and copies everything over. pretty nice.
Nick was really on his element on this one, love it lol.
Thanks :)
Been using Brave for a couple years, most of the time as my main browser. My main gripe is still sync, as it still doesn't support anything but bookmarks on the iOS version (that and the UI on iOS is really inferior to Safari's). Brave Search has honestly surprised me as well!
Ah yeah the iOS version is really underwhelming
@@TheLinuxEXP you can't actually use the crypto feature of the browser on iOS because apple has some stupid rules on there appstore preventing them from doing it it is one of the many reason why i plan on getting a android phone instead
New edge is chromium based aswell, decent, at least on windows, however for Linux, Firefox is king
If adds were kept to a reasonable level on most website, including UA-cam, most would not even think to use add blocking. Unfortunately, the bombardment of adds make many sites totally unusable, so a user either stop navigating those sites, or use an add blocker; in either case, revenue stream stops.
On a side note, I use to watch UA-cam videos on my TV using the included app. Lately, the shear bombardment of adds became unbearable, to the point where I not only stopped watching UA-cam on the TV, but I removed the app entirely. It had become worst than regular live TV, not only is there more adds, but, unlike live TV, they just cut in without any rhyme or reasons.
I just love Vivaldi's features. I use their double tabs and their web panels all the time.
Based Vivaldi user.
vivaldi 😍😍😍
not had the urge to try out the new search yet but it's nice to hear how it's coming along. Been pretty pleased with brave overall, due to how easy to set up it can be for non-techy people. Sent you a few bat for your honest take on the whole thing o7
Which Distro are you using in this video?
What I want to know the most is what prevents Google from simply saying, "From now on, if you want to continue to underpin your browser product with Chromium, you may NOT block ads!"
Sent you some of those BAT as support. Keep it up.
Thanks a lot!
Reminds me of a coworker showing me Brave sometime over a year ago; we put it up vs Firefox + ublock origin as his bragging points were speed from its built in adblocking that listed how much time it saved. I 'think' I ran firefox with default blocklists but may have hit every ubo checklist and it was a slow connection. Brave loaded each site slower that we tested even if ubo didn't brag about time saved so I had his attention; was based off of wallclock timing for when page still showed it was transferring data through page changing or browser status.
Brave search is really good, I switched from DDG and it's incredible how much more relevant are the results I get. It's almost like Google. Can't stand Brave browser tho, Firefox is still my choice there.
for me, ungoogled chromium is the best middle ground for everything i need, web browsing, watching youtube and maybe some legacy flash games if i need it
Can you please tell me which video you've used in this video?
By the way breeze cursors look really cool. Even thought I switched from KDE to Gnome, I still use breeze cursor & breeze icons.
Only a Frenchman would say that some of his income comes from "super illegal activities like contraband cheese and bread." You crack me up! 🤣
Hahah thanks 😅
What OS are you using in the video ?? eOS 6 ??
A monopoly is NEVER too entrenched to remove, but it may require PITCHFORKS
My biggest reward that I got by switching to Brave, is that Facebook hogs something like 10x as much memory (a hole somewhere?) on Chrome or Firefox and accordingly stalls Windows long before any problems appear with Brave.
I still use Firefox with DuckDuckGo or Qwant, but started since last year using Brave mainly as a Chrome based Browser, since depending only on one engine isn't something I like and Firefox is one of the last one surviving the "We are Chromium based browsers"
Great video as always
Thanks :)
You should make a video about your kde configuration, cheers
It’s coming :)
Not related to the topic of the video(which I'm still watching) but what OS are you using here? It looks sleek!
He's using KDE but that's heavily customized (as it should) and it looks pretty nice. As for the OS i think he said that until Elementary OS 6 comes out, he's gonna be using Manjaro which i think it is, but who cares about the base.
@@r4d1cxl19 thanks for the info! I'm still rather "new" to Linux(meaning I've been using it for a while but I don't do heavy modding) and I was wondering because I know he loves Elementary but this felt clearly different. I'll have to get into modding myself sooner or later, his desktop environment looks gorgeous :)
At 4:28 you claim that Brave takes the choice of blocking ads or not away from the user. That is incorrect. While ad blocking is turned on by default as you stated, it is easily disabled by clicking on the lion head insignia at the right side of the address bar. From there I can control the ad blocker for that page or I can follow a link from there to the settings to control the ad block across the entire browser. So I, the user, very much have the choice of whether or not to block ads in brave.
Hey Nick, what about the decentralized Presearch engine ? IF it ever makes out of beta so that it's actually decentralized, could it provide an alternative to Google / Brave ?
Which is your best mobile os?
Adding to the speed point of yours,
Here on my network (India) DDG is noticably slower, while Brave and Google are instantaneous.
So the speed might just be because of servers locations and traffic.
Might be, yeah!
It's probably because big companies; Google, Microsoft etc have cache servers. There's many in India and further around in Singapore.
I use Brave as a secondary browser to Firefox, like you. The crypto is creepy and I've disabled it. I wish they didn't have that component.
Are you seriously... no way, people, don't pretend to forget Vivaldi.
Not open source though?
@@TheLinuxEXP For you.
Nice work Nick. keep up the posting and the humour.
brave has been my go to for a fair while. I have recently switched to the portable version because the browser is still in beta.
updates cannot be controlled through settings on the full product and each update resets many settings that I prefer it didnt.
some suggest a dark motive. e.g. offer to save passwords, turn bat tokens back on.
they claim that because it is still in beta that this is the case. that it has been robust and still in beta for over a year suggests it isnt in beta but is deliberately kept in a state for control.
Thanks :)
been a year and brave is still my favourite browser, i mostly use it on my android since it has an adblocker wich is pretty cool
The only point that frustrated me is that you can’t have a map view when searching a location
Vivaldi is my king for some years now. No complaints with Vivaldi whatsoever.
On linux no chromium browser support kinetic touchpad scrolling for like windows , so for me they are no go. The firefox support it. Not out of the box but its very easy to configure
And MathML too
Which distro are you using in this video? Is that gnome 40?
4:11 Still personal decision because you can turn off the brave shields
8:41 Zoro to be like:
SIKE!
I have seen Brest in location. I was shocked, but than remembered that it is also a town in France
Haha yeah :)
2:49 I was about to copy your passphrase, but I quickly learned that you're French not stupid
Hahaha yeah 😅
Are there options to have the browser menu be text instead of icons and tabs on the bottom in Brave? I've stuck with palemoon for these options.. except for youtube because palemoon doesn't have an adequate youtube addon's collection - I'm using firefox for youtube.
Nice to see you are subscribed to LTT too.
Of course
Going Brave to avoid Google when the browser shares the same engine never made enough sense for me; even if its clean, it just feels like its giving up and joining in, not unlike Microsoft doing the same damn with Edge.
DDG has connections with Microsoft too. Another "no" for me when I found that out.
The end of the video is exactly the reason why I donate to Mozilla and keep using FF. I have no problem with websites so far, but my scope of internet usage is quite limited. Thanks for the video, though!
You’re welcome :)
I personally don't trust firefox i would rather use librewolf which i think is a bit better
@@killertigergaming6762 Librewolf is 99% Firefox but is pre-configured for privacy and security and is not updated as often as Firefox is updated.
@@killertigergaming6762 It should be noted that Firefox's philosophies are often for the good of the internet. Most things they promote are well intentioned. Even the controversial opinions they have are often out of horrible events that happened rather than them just being jerks.
It's more of a flawed opinion rather than them actually doing something bad (and hating on a person for having an opinion is not a good thing in my opinion).
Compared to everything else, firefox is much more trustworthy. And frankly, it's the only alternative we have to these big corporations.... so supporting it is supporting the freedom and rights of the internet.
@@TheDeathmail idk seems kinda backward when they want more then deplatforming. But are also helping support freedom and rights on the internet
Psst... I need more of that "Cheese" and "Bread" 👀
BRAVE forever. 💪💪💪
Which distribution of Linux do you use
You are a brave man yourself for criticizing Firefox (even though it's true) on a Linux channel 😂
Great content as always 👍
Thanks a lot :)
I use Waterfox(Firefox fork) with Brave Search. Previously I used SearX as my search engine.
Will still stick to firefox, been with it from around 2005
that caught me off guard, tfw you're from a country where selling cheese and bread is legit a crime
Hahah 😅
I think Vivaldi is better personally. More customisation, more features, and it has a built-in ad and tracker blocker that you can toggle on and off.
My only two problems with Brave so far, after using it for a month on an Android tablet are these...
Brave rewards doesn't serve enough ads. I have it set to 5 ads an hour, and most of the time, it doesn't manage to give me 5 in a day.
My other problem is may not necessarily be a problem with Brave. Android is still new to me, so it could Android. But... The Android system navigation bar at the bottom of the screen does not switch to night mode with the rest of the Browser. It remains glaringly bright white at all times. Which is a horrible experience when trying to watch video with dark scenes. I know that the Android navigation bar can go dark in a browser, because it does so in Google Chrome.
An advantage Brave has over Chrome on Android though, is that it even has the option to block ads. You have no such choice on Chrome for Android.
You may want to consider testing on multiple OS. Desktop and mobile builds are slightly different.
I've also been using Brave Search, and I find the results excellent. I didn't notice any problems with search times. Maybe I'm just used to sluggishness because of certain devices I use. I never found myself waiting for a search long enough to mentally make note of its speed as unusual or annoying.
I did encounter a tiny cosmetic problem with Brave Search. In the image search mode, on the results page, whe. you scroll all the way to the end of the results, there is a little message asking for feedback on the search engine. The problem with this, is that the message can be placed on the same row of elements as the image results, so it pushes the last row off center. This is obviously THE WORST POSSIBLE THING! Hopefully it's fixed before too long. It pains me.
I actually like the search results more than Google. They seem cleaner and more relevant. Even with searches that I expect to give it trouble. I suspect Google's results are skewed somewhat by ulterior motives, giving dirtier results.
Also, I swear I'm not obsessed with dirt! I coincidentally had cause to use that kind of phrasing.
what distro are you using in the video?
If Brave search has the feature akin to DDG's bang search, I'll definitely switch to it.
It has it, it just doesn’t have a list of the bangs you can use
Yes it is all fine except it is chromium.. soon there will be only one browser and it is pretty bad
Yeah, that’s my conclusion in this video as well
firefox. forever.
For me as well, for now!
I know it’s a long shot. But I hope brave creates a map service. I would like a cross platform alternative to google maps.
This whole crypto crap in Brave really bugs me, completely independent from the ad blocking. Blockchain is a cool technology and decentralized finance could be great some day but current crypto currencies looks a lot like Ponzi schemes and peddling them like that seem a bit shady to me. No intrinsic value and you only get money out of it of somebody buys your coin for more money. They're speculation objects, not currency.
And yeah, Chromium hegemony. Also Firefox is still pretty good, have almost no issues with it. The pop-up blocking can be a bit aggressive (unless you frequently visit shady sites it's just useless because you actually want all pop-up to open because it's an OAuth windows etc.) but that can be toggled.
@Salifx "Regular" money is backed by government violence, e.g. the Police, Military etc. The government "promises" that if somebody screws you over in a dollar/euro/whatever transaction they'll go after that person (screws you over as in illegal, not talking about morality here). It also gains legitimacy by the government collecting taxes in it. Basically if the Gov accepts it for taxes it must be the official money.
Not saying Gov violence is a great way to do things but it's certainly more than what it is for crypto, which is basically just hype.
Put simply, if people stop caring about some coin it'll loose all value whereas for the USD the US Gov will make you care about it.
Sure, in theory if everybody stopped believing that it wouldn't work anymore but that's a loooooot less likely that it is for some random coin or even Bitcoin. I mean you can't possibly call something that fluctuates as much as BTC a serious currency.
Also the Ponzi part doesn't just come from the lack of intrinsic value, it also comes from the need of somebody to buy you out in order the get anything from it.
No intrinisc value doesn't really matter real money doesn't have any intrinsic value its about what you can get from it and you can get quite a bit from it.
@Salifx I explicitly wrote that I'm not saying the system is good as it is. Just explaining why it's more stable as thus useful as a currency than crypto coins. If there's a viable non government controlled (decentralized) alternative at some point, great. Just saying that crypto in its current state ain't that.
Hey illuminator I see your perspective but I have a few videos for you if you ever want to see another perspective to it this is one of the best and greatest opportunities to make some real money off this and you're right a majority of them are Ponzi schemes but not in the original sense of one they're just not going to be adapted and used more widely the current issue is government versus decentralized for the people currency that's the problem that's why John McPhee went missing and was probably killders being tortured we don't know he could have faked his death it's hard to say giving the money and what he got involved and his speech is going against the government and giving people power in his speeches the government doesn't like that ever so they take people out like that and they usually shoot them in the back shoot them in the head or make it look like a suicide. A majority of the articles you will read on them are owned by state-funded operated or affiliated organizations that control the narrative perspective and spend the story the way they want to fit their agenda and they will always give you a fraction of the truth of the full story especially here in California with such people like Chris doner, or in texas the victims of Waco and the federal government etc. All they have to do is kill you and then they can come up with any story and who are they going to believe the person alive or the dead man. So the real Ponzi scheme is that a lot of these cryptos might already be owned or being infiltrated by the government to have more control once more than half of any crypto is owned by one entity or government it's already game over just like in the same sense all you need is 5% of the population to be into anything and you can't stop it what happened when 5% or more of the population were into alcohol may try to ban it etc
What is icon theme you use?
Hey Man what OS are you using here?
4:27 It doesn't take the choice away, the user installed brave for a reason and willingly
But the reason might not be ad blocking
@@TheLinuxEXP from brave's website, the first thing after the video thing: Brave Shields For Privacy Block data-grabbing ads and trackers
I think it's kind of explicit.