Brave browser is owned by a for-profit corporation "Brave Software, Inc.". It is not owned by a not-for-profit community. Usually a corporation first priority is to hoard money. Not serve you and protect your privacy. In other words, Brave is risky to increasingly be a Money-Servant. Not a People-Servant.
In April 2016, the CEO of the Newspaper Association of America, David Chavern, said that Brave's proposed replacement of advertising "should be viewed as illegal and deceptive by the courts, consumers, and those who value the creation of content".[20][21]
In January 2016, in reaction to Brave Software's initial announcement, Sebastian Anthony of Ars Technica described Brave as a "cash-grab" and a "double dip". Anthony concluded, "Brave is an interesting idea, but generally it's rather frowned upon to stick your own ads in front of someone else's". TechCrunch, Computerworld, and Engadget termed Brave's ad replacement plans "controversial" in 2016.
In February 2016, Andy Patrizio of Network World reviewed a pre-release version of Brave. Patrizio criticized the browser's feature set as "mighty primitive,"
Firefox is the easiest to install and use. It is also the fastest of all browser. It has good security and privacy. But not as strong as Tor Browser above. Both Tor Browser and Firefox could be installed on the same device and us at the same time.
Alternative 3 of 3. Ungoogled-Chromium browser with Chromium Web Store extension.
Chromium is the internet browser which powered Brave, Chrome, and other browsers. Ungoogled-Chromium is an alternative to all other Chromium based browser.
Your main benefit with Ungoogled-Chromium is that it is WITHOUT any string attached to Google Chrome. Because it does NOT depend on Google web services. In other words, when using Ungoogled-Chromium, Google is NOT able to collect your private data. So you get a stronger privacy.
Introduction video of 2 minutes about Ungoogled-Chromium and the Chromium Web Store extension at https://streamable.com/655nn
Chromium Web Store allows you to get for free ALL Chrome Web Store extension WITHOUT a Google Account
Ok I think I went through most of these links but many didn't pertain to Macs. And I'm not real savvy when it comes to following computer lingo anymore! Too old to care I think. Like my browser has absolutely no ads. I don't know. I can tell when my info is sold to somebody because of the ads that pop up. That's why I'm no longer on Facebook. And I refuse to put anything google on my computer. I have p.o.'d a few people because I refused to put tic toc and google calendar on my system. But I don't care. Apple well......what can I say......I'm perplexed....
For Mac try Epic browser. It doesn't keep a "History" and cookies are dumped each time you quit. (Those features make it unusable for shopping, banking, etc. but that's the point.)
For search use https://presearch.com or www.yandex.com
For Mac I use "Brave" browser only for YouTube, because it skips the adverts.
For Mac I use "Firefox" browser for its "Reader" view feature that cleans up pages and bypasses many subscription pop-ups.
There are other Mac browsers, too: Vivaldi, TorBrowser, Slimjet, Aviator, Maxthon and, of course, Safari, which also supports the "Reader view" option (in the View menu).
Thank you for the info. TorBrowser is the one I received the most responses but for now i'm switching to Firefox because I am familiar with it and will check on the TorBrowser. Thanks fren for your time and expertise
Ok I think I went through most of these links but many didn't pertain to Macs.
For Macs, I suggest the much easier to install and use browsers Tor Browser or Firefox.
Ungoogle-Chromium is harder to install. As it requires command lines. It does have an installer for Macs. But both Tor Browser and Firefox are much easier to install. They both also have stronger security and privacy than Ungoogle-Chromium.
If you're not familiar with Tor Browser and Firefox. Below are details and links to easy and quick installer for other operating systems.
Alternative 1 of 3. Tor Browser.
Tor Browser is easy to install and use. And it is by far the strongest privacy and security. But it is slower.
Firefox is the easiest to install and use. It is also the fastest of all browser. It has good security and privacy. But not as strong as Tor Browser above. Both Tor Browser and Firefox could be installed on the same device and use at the same time.
Freespoke rocks - you can actually find a bunch of stuff that aren't listed in search results from other search engines. But it does irritate me that Freespoke doesn't have a way to sort results by the most recent and the dates shown on each link are 100% wrong EVERY time. :-(
• Libre Source (Open Source). If you are not familiar with "Libre Source", it means this software has both stronger security & stronger privacy. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions on GitLab at https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer
• Attractive GNU General Public version 3 & MIT licenses. This means the software code is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation.
• MetaGer protects against censorship by combining the results of multiple search engines
• Algorithms are transparent and available for everyone to read
• Run by a Nonprofit Organization
• Powered by 100% renewable energy
• Optional, dark theme
Show Your Support To Metager:
• If you enjoy this application, show your support to the authors & contributors with:
Use Brave
I do NOT trust Brave browser. Why? Because :
Below are sources, alternatives Tor Browser, Firefox, Ungoogled-Chromium, and details for those interested
spy on you
Source
• Screenshot during Brave installation at https://i.postimg.cc/zGYzmNbg/brave-browser-spies-on-you.jpg
______• http://1e100.net is googles server.
• https://michaelhorowitz.com/BraveBrowserUDP137.php
______• https://archive.md/RzKhi
Money-Servant
Brave browser is owned by a for-profit corporation "Brave Software, Inc.". It is not owned by a not-for-profit community. Usually a corporation first priority is to hoard money. Not serve you and protect your privacy. In other words, Brave is risky to increasingly be a Money-Servant. Not a People-Servant.
Source
• https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=317170098
______• https://archive.md/oEby8
"illegal and deceptive"
In April 2016, the CEO of the Newspaper Association of America, David Chavern, said that Brave's proposed replacement of advertising "should be viewed as illegal and deceptive by the courts, consumers, and those who value the creation of content".[20][21]
Source
• https://www.pcmag.com/news/343583/newspapers-ad-blocking-brave-browser-is-illegal-deceptive
______• https://archive.md/awAQd
• https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2016/u-s-newspapers-to-ad-blocker-drop-dead/
______• https://archive.md/jtk4t
"cash-grab" & "double dip"
In January 2016, in reaction to Brave Software's initial announcement, Sebastian Anthony of Ars Technica described Brave as a "cash-grab" and a "double dip". Anthony concluded, "Brave is an interesting idea, but generally it's rather frowned upon to stick your own ads in front of someone else's". TechCrunch, Computerworld, and Engadget termed Brave's ad replacement plans "controversial" in 2016.
Source
• https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/mozilla-co-founder-unveils-brave-a-web-browser-that-blocks-ads-by-default/
______• https://archive.md/8bHJS
• https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/01/brave-the-ad-blocking-browser-from-former-mozilla-ceo-grabs-4-5-million/
______• https://archive.md/UKbSb
• https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/web-browsers/brave-browser-begins-controversial-ad-repeal-and-replace-tests.html
______• https://archive.md/yeQuU
• https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/20/privacy-browser-brave-pays-crypto-tokens-ads/
______• https://archive.md/M8PIY
"primitive"
In February 2016, Andy Patrizio of Network World reviewed a pre-release version of Brave. Patrizio criticized the browser's feature set as "mighty primitive,"
Source
• http://www.networkworld.com/article/3030134/microsoft-subnet/benchmark-tests-brave-browser-ad-blocker-chrome-firefox-ie-11.html ______• https://archive.md/sIOm5
Alternatives to Brave
Alternative 1 of 3. Tor Browser.
Tor Browser is easy to install and use. And it is by far the strongest privacy and security. But it is slower.
Get Tor Browser at https://www.torproject.org/download/
Alternative 2 of 3. Firefox.
Firefox is the easiest to install and use. It is also the fastest of all browser. It has good security and privacy. But not as strong as Tor Browser above. Both Tor Browser and Firefox could be installed on the same device and us at the same time.
Get Tor Browser at http://mozilla.org/firefox
Alternative 3 of 3. Ungoogled-Chromium browser with Chromium Web Store extension.
Chromium is the internet browser which powered Brave, Chrome, and other browsers. Ungoogled-Chromium is an alternative to all other Chromium based browser.
Your main benefit with Ungoogled-Chromium is that it is WITHOUT any string attached to Google Chrome. Because it does NOT depend on Google web services. In other words, when using Ungoogled-Chromium, Google is NOT able to collect your private data. So you get a stronger privacy.
Introduction video of 2 minutes about Ungoogled-Chromium and the Chromium Web Store extension at https://streamable.com/655nn
Chromium Web Store allows you to get for free ALL Chrome Web Store extension WITHOUT a Google Account
Download and Install Ungoogled-Chromium
Ungoogled-Chromium at https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#downloads
Optional Chromium Web Store at https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store#chromium-web-store
Ok I think I went through most of these links but many didn't pertain to Macs. And I'm not real savvy when it comes to following computer lingo anymore! Too old to care I think. Like my browser has absolutely no ads. I don't know. I can tell when my info is sold to somebody because of the ads that pop up. That's why I'm no longer on Facebook. And I refuse to put anything google on my computer. I have p.o.'d a few people because I refused to put tic toc and google calendar on my system. But I don't care. Apple well......what can I say......I'm perplexed....
For Mac try Epic browser. It doesn't keep a "History" and cookies are dumped each time you quit. (Those features make it unusable for shopping, banking, etc. but that's the point.) For search use https://presearch.com or www.yandex.com
For Mac I use "Brave" browser only for YouTube, because it skips the adverts.
For Mac I use "Firefox" browser for its "Reader" view feature that cleans up pages and bypasses many subscription pop-ups.
There are other Mac browsers, too: Vivaldi, TorBrowser, Slimjet, Aviator, Maxthon and, of course, Safari, which also supports the "Reader view" option (in the View menu).
Thank you for the info. TorBrowser is the one I received the most responses but for now i'm switching to Firefox because I am familiar with it and will check on the TorBrowser. Thanks fren for your time and expertise
For Macs, I suggest the much easier to install and use browsers Tor Browser or Firefox.
Ungoogle-Chromium is harder to install. As it requires command lines. It does have an installer for Macs. But both Tor Browser and Firefox are much easier to install. They both also have stronger security and privacy than Ungoogle-Chromium.
If you're not familiar with Tor Browser and Firefox. Below are details and links to easy and quick installer for other operating systems.
Alternative 1 of 3. Tor Browser.
Tor Browser is easy to install and use. And it is by far the strongest privacy and security. But it is slower.
Get Tor Browser at https://www.torproject.org/download/
Alternative 2 of 3. Firefox.
Firefox is the easiest to install and use. It is also the fastest of all browser. It has good security and privacy. But not as strong as Tor Browser above. Both Tor Browser and Firefox could be installed on the same device and use at the same time.
Get Tor Browser at http://mozilla.org/firefox
Alternative 3 of 3. Ungoogled-Chromium browser with Chromium Web Store extension.
Harder to install than both Tor Browser and Firefox
Download and Install Ungoogled-Chromium:
Ungoogled-Chromium at https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#downloads
Optional Chromium Web Store at https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store#chromium-web-store
Some of the home screens I get from Brave have been pretty sus. Pro cyrpto/NFT ads, petty sure I saw the illuminati triangle once, etc.
I have firefox already on my computer so I will switch to that for now. Thanks so much for taking the time to respond.
Firefox also spies on you...
Firefox is more woke than DDG
Firefox blocks RT News.
Metacrawler + uBlock Origin (use adblocker to stop google ad spam)
This is a metasearch with it's own crawler
https://www.metacrawler.com/serp?q=freespoke
It feels wrong going back to the option I used before Google was a thing...
Look at the backends
DuckDuckGo is just rebranded Bing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
I haven't used DDG since they became compromised, settled on Brave Search and Swisscows. Kind of sad that Swisscows is also just rebranded Bing.
You are probably thinking "Webcrawler"
I think Metacrawler uses Webcrawler as one of its sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler
Nope, it was meta, webcrawler had the spider logo, but using meta for a metasearch just clicked better with me.
Freespoke rocks - you can actually find a bunch of stuff that aren't listed in search results from other search engines. But it does irritate me that Freespoke doesn't have a way to sort results by the most recent and the dates shown on each link are 100% wrong EVERY time. :-(
That's also what I thought when "google" first came out.
Flippant name, untrustworthy
Honestly most of these blackhat sites have dumb names, all by design
Weinberg. Surprised?
Another Joooooooooo
Someone here suggested yandex and I've been using that site. It has good search results.
My favorite alternative to Duck Duck Go and Google is https://metager.org
Your Benefits With Metager:
• Libre Source (Open Source). If you are not familiar with "Libre Source", it means this software has both stronger security & stronger privacy. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions on GitLab at https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer
• Attractive GNU General Public version 3 & MIT licenses. This means the software code is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation.
• MetaGer protects against censorship by combining the results of multiple search engines
• Algorithms are transparent and available for everyone to read
• Run by a Nonprofit Organization
• Powered by 100% renewable energy
• Optional, dark theme
Show Your Support To Metager:
• If you enjoy this application, show your support to the authors & contributors with:
___• Donation at https://metager.org/spende
___• Patch at https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer
I use freespoke.com.
You're hard pressed to find a search engine that isn't pozzed. Even Yandex is getting worse and worse now.