Been using brave for a few years on mobile and desktop.
They uses to give away BAT, but they have refined their system to not give any unless you spend hours jumping through hoops and linking shoddy Chinese financial apps and crypto wallets.
I still use it for the privacy, but after reading this I will likely switch back to firefox or another chrome based browser.
Right but you also have to trust that the browser doesn’t send your info to its mothership. Because unlike cookies, trackers and such, it has access to all your data.
Kiwi Browser and Yandex Browser lets you use any Chromium extension, and Firefox Nightly, with some hacks, lets you use any Firefox addon available on the webstore.
Fennec on F-Droid is the best for not having to resort to beta or nightly builds. However, none of the Firefox options let you sideload your own extensions like Kiwi.
Been using brave for a few years on mobile and desktop.
They uses to give away BAT, but they have refined their system to not give any unless you spend hours jumping through hoops and linking shoddy Chinese financial apps and crypto wallets.
I still use it for the privacy, but after reading this I will likely switch back to firefox or another chrome based browser.
What privacy? You do realize the browser has access to all the data it renders right?
Mostly not sharing with ISPs, and blocking trackers, cookies and some ads natively is nice too.
Right but you also have to trust that the browser doesn’t send your info to its mothership. Because unlike cookies, trackers and such, it has access to all your data.
I mean it’s refaced chromium, isn’t the mothership google?
Doesn’t google already know what shade of pink/brown my asshole is?
Are there are any mobile browsers that have ad blocking like brave?
You can use AdGuard on Android to block ads device wide. You can also install uBlock origin in Firefox Mobile.
I’m not sure for iOS
Firefox. Ad blocking on my mobile is the same as my pc
Kiwi Browser and Yandex Browser lets you use any Chromium extension, and Firefox Nightly, with some hacks, lets you use any Firefox addon available on the webstore.
Firefox’s stable version also comes with uBlock.
The hacky extension workaround also works for Firefox Beta now if you don’t want to deal with as many glitches that Nightly might have.
Fennec on F-Droid is the best for not having to resort to beta or nightly builds. However, none of the Firefox options let you sideload your own extensions like Kiwi.
Okay but I don’t want to use Chromium.
Fair enough! Definitely give Fennec a try. I switch between it and Kiwi myself (the latter for a few paywall extensions and PWA).
Firefox for Android lets you install ublock origin as an extension. I absolutely refuse to use any other mobile browser.
Thrown privacy badger and if you are really feeling rebel and don’t mind tinkering noscrypt