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Brave Browser for iOS Updates App to Remove Reward Features That Violated App Store Rules

Apple_Robert said:
How is the app destroyed? If it can’t survive unless it is able to violate App Store rules, that doesn’t say much about the app, in my opinion.

A browser supposedly geared towards privacy wanting to pay people to view ads seems rather hypocritical to me.
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I was making around $10-$15 a month in BAT that’s going to turn a lot of users away. It’s still a great browser and the ads are actually ads I want to see without needing to mine my personal data to get. I’ll be using it still to support sites I visit. I throw 3-5 BAT at Macrumors a month and around 10 to Wikipedia. The desktop browser is the best I have used for Mac OS.
 
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Really, paying users to watch content is going to be one future path of the internet. It's ridiculous that the only people in the food chain who don't get paid are the ones being sold.
 
Would anyone here agree that a config and extension optimized Firefox is a better bet for privacy? (aside from functionality, rendering, etc)
 
My only complaint with brave is I keep having to scroll to the top when loading a page. :rolleyes:
 
5232152 said:
Still the best browser out there. Used Chrome since its beta. Swapped to Firefox because of the privacy concerns that Chrome unfortunately is born with. Chromium is still the best rendering engine out there so gave Brave a go 6 months ago and it's both faster just feels nicer. The BAT tokens are a good idea just not that great executed - but they are still thinking more logically about this than most browsers out there.
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Edge is really, really good. I know, I know it’s Microsoft, but I find it even better than Brave, and that’s all I used until I downloaded Edge. True story.
 
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C DM said:
Microsoft Edge?
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I have used Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Brave, and Opera Touch. Personally I rank them:

1. Microsoft Edge (super fast, light on battery, tons of options in the menu)

2. Opera Touch / Brave (tie for me as I use them both equally, at times)

3. Firefox

4. Safari

5. Chrome
 
rjp1 said:
That sounds like trading google's crap for Microsoft's crap? lol
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You didn't reply to me, specifically, but as a Windows user I can say your statement is pretty much correct (at least, for the new Chromium-based edge). However, the difference is that there's a handful of toggles in the browser's settings that actually turn stuff off, for real.

Edit: And by "stuff" I mean analytics and what not. I've proxied Chromium Edge and there's nothing nefarious going on with all the analytics, etc. turned off.
 
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Brave is useless on iOS.

  1. Its a poor adblocker. Safari with adGaurd blocks far more than brave does in my experience.
  2. It lacks a browser sync. This has been a feature they have been trying to figure out for years now and for some reason are incapable of getting it functioning. They've recently released bookmarking sync as an incremental update... hardly enough.
  3. Its not even a good privacy browser on desktop. If you are really concerned about privacy then there are a plethora of better options. On iOS, you HAVE to use webkit, which means its no more private than safari while using traditional search engines with tracker blockers.
  4. Now no BAT.
I really wanted to use this browser. Tried for months. Why the hell is anyone still using this?
 
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rafark said:
Here it is, love those dislikes I got:

www.theverge.com

Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs

The company touts its browser as a privacy-focused option that doesn’t track users.
www.theverge.com www.theverge.com

www.androidpolice.com

Brave Browser caught adding its own referral codes to some cryptocurrency trading sites

No, Brave is not a privacy browser
www.androidpolice.com www.androidpolice.com
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It literally told you when clicking the link it would support the Brave team as an affiliate it wasn't a surprise to anyone who used the browser and could read. In the end a bunch of people who never even used the browser started complaining. Its all open source anyway you can always self audit same as Firefox.
 
persuasiveghost said:
Would anyone here agree that a config and extension optimized Firefox is a better bet for privacy? (aside from functionality, rendering, etc)
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Depends Firefox can be configured for better privacy than Brave but you also create a very unique fingerprint that way (Not talking about the traditional fingerprint both Brave and Firefox randomize for users). I'm getting to the point where I want things just to work and Brave does that though I am jealous of Firefox's support of ESNI etc as well.
 
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Have never tried the iOs version but the desktop version has been great and flawless since I started using it back in March. Safari has all been forgotten.
 
Downloaded Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Brave and have Safari on my iPad Air 1 Gen and loaded up all my favorite sites on each browser and Brave by far outperforms all the rest and scrolls so much smoother with less white showing going down the page.
I use Safari always in private mode so it never saves the logins or cookies when clicking on links in other apps.
Brave isn’t in private more. Only DDG allows privacy between tabs. I can be logged into two FB accounts with DDG at the same time.
Be nice if I could do that with Brave but I’m probably not going to see many updates since I’m stuck on iOS 12.5.1.
 
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