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Posted on 01/09/2021 10:21:07 AM PST by dynachrome
I love Brave.
It’s secure, private and reliable.
Here’s a pretty good review of VPN services and what VPN can and cannot do.
https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-vpn-services
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Maybe its time to go back to the old business days.
Back when they fired the CEO, many of use switched to Brave.
It is much faster, and also comes with its own built in ad-blocks..
(the idiot millennials can’t learn from their past mistakes, go figure)
Bookmark for later.
Chrome is prolly your best bet.
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Owned by Alphabet/Google
"I'd like to know, too. Chrome isn't Chromium...right?"
Google still owns Chrome and sets the APIs to its standards and liking - the coders just follow the rules
I work in the industry and trust me, it literally like being a spy behind enemy lines where one slip up can blow your cover.
I just installed Brave onto my Ubuntu machine - no issues and importing bookmarks was fairly painless.
What’s your opinion of the TOR browser?
When new to Brave Browser, and installing or wondering about its setup, I suggest that you select “StartPage” as your Search Engine.
Do not panic, if BB appears to not function as you might wish, or BB has various settings that are a mystery to you.
Be patient.
I strongly suggest, that you NOT set BB to start up and promptly go to your favorite webpage.
BB has MANY settings that will take time for you to learn.
You will help yourself, by setting BB to be plain in appearance - as much as you can, for its startup and for any appearance of a new window.
Later, with experience, you’ll know where things are, and then - may be the time to adjust these initial windows appearances to your liking.
Early in your venture, you will see that the first section of Settings, is named “Get Started”.
Therein, you can “Import bookmarks and settings” -— and you do have the ability to choose (so again, do not panic).
Under “Get Started”, you also can select what you want to see “On startup” -— IOW, a blank page (for now - learning).
Go to the Preferences aka Settings (depending upon your OS) > Get started > On startup > Open a specific page or set of pages
. . . and select “Add a new page”
In the simple “Add a new page” window, type: about:blank
Click on the “Add” button.
I suggest that you also keep this simple, for now - learning.
Brave colors: Light
Show bookmarks: Disabled
Use wide address bar: Enabled
Show autocomplete in address bar: Disabled
Show top sites in autocomplete suggestions: Disabled
Show Brave suggested sites in autocomplete suggestions: Disabled
Hide Brave Rewards button: Enabled
Always show bookmarks on new tab page: Disabled
Always Show Full URLs: Enabled
New tab page shows: Dashboard
Background images: Enabled
Sponsored images: Disabled
Brave Stats: Disabled
Top Sites: Disabled
Clock: Enabled
Brave Rewards: Disabled
Binance: Disabled
Gemini: Disabled
Crypto.com: Disabled
DO NOT yet try to use Sync
This section of Settings, you will get to know well over time; and it will take time.
Settings > Shields > Look & feel >
Show the number of blocked items on the Shields icon: Enabled
Default view: Advanced view
Trackers & ads blocking: Standard
Upgrade connections to HTTPS: Enabled
Block scripts . . .
“Block scripts” - this is where BB blocks a lot of scripts, such as javascripts. Over time, you will learn and appreciate how DENSE and PLENTY are the numbers of scripts that websites want to download to your computer.
You can discover a lot, IF you select:
Block scripts: Enabled
But for starters, learning to get the general hang of using BB, you might select:
Block scripts: Disabled
IF you select the steeper learning curve:
Block scripts: Enabled
. . . then be prepared to use:
Settings > Additional settings > Privacy and security > Site and Shields Settings > Content > JavaScript
Under “JavaScript” there is a “Block” section plus an “Allow” section.
That “Allow” section will become very familiar to you. That is where you specifically select paths that download scripts, and you set the path PORT NUMBER for such paths.
For example, your bank’s *secure* URL address:
You enter that (under the “Allow”) section, as:
IOW, port 443 for secure HTTPS
Another example:
You enter that (under the “Allow”) section, as:
http://www.simplewebsite.org:80
IOW, port 80 for plain ol’ HTTP
Now, let’s return to Settings and “Social media blocking”
Allow Google login buttons on third party sites: Disabled
Allow Facebook logins and embedded posts: Disabled
Allow Twitter embedded tweets: Disabled
Allow Linkedin embedded posts: Disabled
Search engine used in the address bar: StartPage (or DuckDuckGo)
Ethereum provider using Dapps: None
Load Crypto Wallets on startup: Disabled
Allow Google login extensions: Disabled
Hangouts: Disabled
IPFS Companion: Disabled
Media Router: Disabled
Private window with Tor: Enabled (This is where you enable TOR within BB)
Automatically redirect onion sites: Disabled
WebTorrent: Disabled
Widevine: Enabled
There is a lot to learn, here.
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Clear browsing data
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There, you determine what you want to be cleared, or not, when you quit BB or when you click on a “Clear data” button.
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Cookies and other site data
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There, more for you to determine.
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Site and Shields Settings
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We went over some examples, up above, herein.
For starters, I suggest now allowing any “Autofill” for “Payment methods”
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The above should get you started.
You will get to know the BB Shields pop-up window that results from your Right-click upon the small BB Lion icon that is somewhere at the same level of the BB URL address field in the BB window.
Generally, when you get that window, click on “Got it” . . . and next, you will see details re items blocked, or not, re scripts.
TFL....
It’s open source.
BUMP
Well, Crap. I like the way it works better than any of the others.
We better not update Thunderbird email client either, since they own it too; they might put some new code into it to mess with emailing conservative thoughts.
Have used PaleMoon, it was pretty good. Brave seems to work well, but I never liked it for some reason.
I need something that works with NoScript to stop Google java spy bots and the like.
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thank you
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