It's so nice now I figured out how to disable that "New tab or return to last open tab?" popup added in a recent update to #BraveBrowser on Android.

WhoTF thinks asking a question using a popup - every time I open the browser - is anything but annoying?

Are the folks at #Brave idiots? @bravebrowser

This has happened to me earlier today and I'm trying to find help to fix this or someone to help me find an alternate that I can use.

Also, I had tried to post this in the Brave Browser subreddit on Reddit, but it got deleted and locked to replies due to it being marked at a duplicate, but I don't know what it would be a duplicate of as I checked all the existing topics there.

It does seem this arrived and seems stable enough on nightly, I'll be trying out

https://brave.com/brave-news/

I can only find a popup there

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41426958

Brave is essentially just Chrome with an adblocker, a bunch of bloatware, and a bunch of controversies.

Brave took BAT donations in YouTuber's names without their consent, with them keeping the money if the YouTubers didn't claim it. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-browser-no-longer-claims-to-fundraise-on-behalf-of-others-so-thats-nice/

Brave's search engine crawler hides itself from websites by pretending to be Googlebot, and Meta (Facebook) buys API access from them to train their AI. https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/

The business model of Brave rewards as a whole is to block all other ad networks to replace them with their own, which is unfair as only YouTubers and websites that have joined can make money from most Brave users.

If Brave actually cared, they would create an acceptable ads style feature which was free for everyone and allowed simple contextual banners while blocking ads which track you, take up most of the page, or have NSFW content.

Their approach is monopolistic as they have full control and can strangle YouTubers and websites by dropping pay at any time.

And Brenden Eich has said on Twitter that he plans to release "Brave Origin", which is a paid version of Brave without the bloatware. That name is ironic as he is admitting that his browser is commercialised and bloated, which is similar to when gorhill gave uBlock way to Chris Aljoudi who commercialised it, which led him to create uBlock Origin.

If you use Brave, ditch it and look at using Librewolf or Helium instead, which both include no ads nor tracking and don't have Brave News, Rewards, Wallet, Talk etc bloatware.

I'm using Linux as my daily driver and last day I tried to geolocate me with OpenStreetMap.. I was surprised to be located a hundred kilometers from where I was. Other browser are able to locate me because they use geoclue service with BeaconDB. I saw some issue related on official github but it does some year and nothing happened. Someone has news? Thanks and sorry, English isn't my first language :)

@bravebrowser for some reason enafore doesn't work on brave, up/down arrows don't do anything.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/33072650

Its is pretty easy to get rid of all the brave crap. You just need a policy file:

# cat /etc/brave/policies/managed/brave_policies.json
{
    "BraveRewardsDisabled": true,
    "BraveWalletDisabled": true,
    "BraveVPNDisabled": 1,
    "BraveAIChatEnabled": true,
    "NewTabPageLocation": "https://search.brave.com/",
    "TorDisabled": false,
    "PasswordManagerEnabled": false,
    "DnsOverHttpsMode": "automatic"
}

@bravebrowser go ahead and add the -y. Anyone who's reached this point is commited.

This is the way.

@bravebrowser Browser Users Report Issues with YouTube Ad Blocking - Solutions from the Community
https://sambent.com/brave-browser-users-report-issues-with-youtube-ad-blocking-solutions-from-the-community-2/

This image shows how my search window looks. i'm using firefox as a browser. I already disabled all the ad blocks and paused ghostery but it still looks like this. the problem is, that I cannot click images or the other tabs because the search bar is above it and doesn't go away. I can't find anything in the settings and i couldn't find a similar topic on the Brave support page. anything i'm missing?

When I click on a tab while holding Ctrl or Shift, it just switches me into that tab. On other browsers (Firefox, Vivaldi) it selects the tab instead. If I want to move tabs from one window into another, I have to move them one. at. a. time.

How do I fix this? I am on version 1.69.168 on Linux from the Flatpak.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21739693

Web browser and search startup Brave has laid off 27 employees across the different departments, TechCrunch has learned. The company confirmed the layoffs but didn’t give more details about the total headcount left nor the reason for the layoffs. PitchBook however estimates that Brave has around 191 employees, working out to Brave cutting 14% of […]

Brave used to have an option to disable autoplaying of videos on web pages. But now the option is removed. I found discussions on Brave forums from users asking about it, but no one from the Brave team responds. (see this, this, and this).

I really don't want to believe Brave is intentionally being silent about this, but it's kinda obvious.

Anyone know anything about it?

I just realized that @bravebrowser has a blocklist for youtube shorts.

My life feels so much better now.

Seems to work on Desktop, but on android mobile, when I edit the search results in brave to not include AI, it doesn't save and pops up when I reopen browser/search in regular or Private window.

Don't want to wait for AI or get is crappy results.

Update

Apparently this is patched out by Brave, but it is enabled by default. See u/Engywuck@lemm.ee 's comment below!

Vanilla chromium gives google's websites special treatment by offering detailed CPU info, among other things. This is implemented through a hidden browser extension. You can prove this by yourself by running chrome.runtime.sendMessage("nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome", {method: "cpu.getInfo"}, (response) => {console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2)); }, ); on google.com through the browser console. For me, it gives the following info:

{
  "value": {
    "archName": "x86_64",
    "features": [
      "mmx",
      "sse",
      "sse2",
      "sse3",
      "ssse3",
      "sse4_1",
      "sse4_2",
      "avx"
    ],
    "modelName": "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz",
    "numOfProcessors": 4,
    "processors": [
      {
        "usage": {
          "idle": 28238205,
          "kernel": 827581,
          "total": 32762960,
          "user": 3697174
        }
      },
      {
        "usage": {
          "idle": 1455131,
          "kernel": 743391,
          "total": 6209241,
          "user": 4010719
        }
      },
      {
        "usage": {
          "idle": 1448653,
          "kernel": 769970,
          "total": 6068506,
          "user": 3849883
        }
      },
      {
        "usage": {
          "idle": 1450274,
          "kernel": 744886,
          "total": 5948597,
          "user": 3753437
        }
      }
    ],
    "temperatures": []
  }
}

Note that this doesn't work on other websites like lemmy.world, only google.

What I am confused about is that I can replicate this behavior in Brave. Why does brave reveal this information to google, and to google only? From what I understand, it can be used for fingerprinting and tracking. Shouldn't this be patched out? Is my testing methodology flawed? Will this be fixed?

Brave version: Version 1.67.123 Chromium: 126.0.6478.126 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit) running on linux via flatpak

I recently noticed when I received a login alert from a service provider, that @bravebrowser does not spoof the Operating System. That can, depending on your OS, enhance finger-printing and be a dead giveaway #BraveBrowser. There definitely needs to be an option to manually or automatically spoof the OS.

@bravebrowser Brave has no intuitive search ... search query: Bruins 2024 playoffs. Return results: stuff from '22, '23, then stuff about Rnd 2 ... nothing about last nights HUGE game 7.

Then I go to Google (ugh) with the same query. First return is the box score followed by a game 7 highlight reel from YT. This is why Google owns search results.

Has anyone else noticed that the @washingtonpost has stepped up their paywall game? Accessing with cookies and Javascript disabled now only gives a short summary cc @bravebrowser