I read an article about Brave Browser a while back because I was interested in a mobile browser with AdBlock capabilities. What I found out made it even worse than my current browser - Chrome.
Most of our current browser choices are based on The original Gecko Engine which itself was based on Netscape source code. What we got from this was Mozilla Firefox and, eventually Chrome. I'm gonna leave out a bunch of other browsers because there are literally hundreds if not thousands of alternative browsers out there.
The New Microsoft Edge Browser and Brave Browser are both based on Chromium - a stripped down variant of Google Chrome.
Brave Browser claims to black ads in what people would likely believe is akin to using AdBlock. The reality is that Brave Browser doesn't really block ads, but instead replaces them with ads that benefit the Brave Browser company. So instead of your information being sent to Google or Microsoft so that they can generate ad revenue by sending you ads content, it goes to the Brave Browser company to do the exact same thing.
In other words, you're not really protecting yourself. You're only giving another company a source of revenue. And that company makes a living by stripping out the ads the other companies produce and giving you their own ads.
If you're OK with this, then give Brave Browser a try. If not, I would suggest downloading AdBlock for Google or Microsoft Edge. I believe there are also version for Firefox and few other flavors of Browser.
Most of our current browser choices are based on The original Gecko Engine which itself was based on Netscape source code. What we got from this was Mozilla Firefox and, eventually Chrome. I'm gonna leave out a bunch of other browsers because there are literally hundreds if not thousands of alternative browsers out there.
The New Microsoft Edge Browser and Brave Browser are both based on Chromium - a stripped down variant of Google Chrome.
Brave Browser claims to black ads in what people would likely believe is akin to using AdBlock. The reality is that Brave Browser doesn't really block ads, but instead replaces them with ads that benefit the Brave Browser company. So instead of your information being sent to Google or Microsoft so that they can generate ad revenue by sending you ads content, it goes to the Brave Browser company to do the exact same thing.
In other words, you're not really protecting yourself. You're only giving another company a source of revenue. And that company makes a living by stripping out the ads the other companies produce and giving you their own ads.
If you're OK with this, then give Brave Browser a try. If not, I would suggest downloading AdBlock for Google or Microsoft Edge. I believe there are also version for Firefox and few other flavors of Browser.
