Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.

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[–] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Tbh even apart from the scams, Brave is such a crappy UX compared to Firefox/LibreWolf/IronFox that I wouldn't use it regardless. Idk why people hype this garbage

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Brave is the only browser I'm aware of that allows you to easily toggle cookies on and off on a per-site basis. This seems like an obvious and important privacy feature but no one else offers it.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    uBlock Origin is another engine.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I'm not sure how it compares to Brave but I did some benchmarks and found uBO to use significantly less RAM than alternatives like AdGuard. Nevermind that it's more trustworthy by far than basically all the alternatives...

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Alternative spyware is no better than Google spyware

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Brave is/was funded by Peter Theil and Brandon Eich is an advisor for Palantir. Hard pass.

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    So, I'm guessing they coded it originally with an LLM, and then used more LLMs to optimize and fix the shit from the first pass.

    "Look guys: our steaming pile of shit is slightly smaller"

    To be clear: this is completely unfounded conjecture, but it sounds in-line to me for Brave.

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