I like it but it's got quirks that keep me using Firefox and Chrome. So while they can certainly challenge Google, (not like Duck Duck isn't already) is their search engine any good?
The biggest "quirk" I see is that they apparently missed a lot of the checking in with google that they tried to remove from chrome.
Try leaving Brave running with no windows while running Little Snitch or similar.
There are a handful of both IPv4 and IPv6 queries coming from brave as it starts, with a couple an hour after that. When you look further into it, they seem to be going to google domains.
Blocking them doesn't seem to prevent performance.
I use Brave for Duolingo on my Macs, and when I need to read news sites or otherwise browse on my iPhone. I'd go back to Slimjet (another de-googletrackered chrome variant) for Duolingo, in which speech input isn't disabled, but it just crashes too often.
And I use Firefox on the rare occasion that I need private tabs to share cookies, as Safari separates each private tab.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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Does anyone actually use Brave ? (Score:1)
I like it but it's got quirks that keep me using Firefox and Chrome. So while they can certainly challenge Google, (not like Duck Duck isn't already) is their search engine any good?
Brave has what quirks? (Score:2)
Re:Brave has what quirks? (Score:2)
The biggest "quirk" I see is that they apparently missed a lot of the checking in with google that they tried to remove from chrome.
Try leaving Brave running with no windows while running Little Snitch or similar.
There are a handful of both IPv4 and IPv6 queries coming from brave as it starts, with a couple an hour after that. When you look further into it, they seem to be going to google domains.
Blocking them doesn't seem to prevent performance.
I use Brave for Duolingo on my Macs, and when I need to read news sites or otherwise browse on my iPhone. I'd go back to Slimjet (another de-googletrackered chrome variant) for Duolingo, in which speech input isn't disabled, but it just crashes too often.
And I use Firefox on the rare occasion that I need private tabs to share cookies, as Safari separates each private tab.