Ok, so the mobile version of Brave Browser sucks on my phone. Crashes more than my friend having anxiety attacks. No offense to anyone dealing with anxiety as I deal with it too at times. But I still poke fun at it.
@pkimpton have you tried the DuckDuckGo Privacy browser?
@nickh On my phone not as of yet. Temporarily switched back to Chrome. But I'll be testing it out. And removed Brave off my phone.
@pkimpton after figuring out that Chrome resolves at the DNS specified by you/your computer, and then proxies Ads and other stuff to their DNS. Its the same way spyware works
@nickh Well you see, on my laptop I block ads via a modified host file so there's a ton that don't get through. Now that Brave is on my laptop, even a ton more won't get through at all.
@pkimpton I like brave but I haven't done any testing to see it brave reports back to google, as it is a Chrome derivative. I have not found a Browser I am 100% happy with yet. Been using Epiphany and Firefox when I have to.
I hope to set up a solid set of tests and find one browser (or more) that works good enough and that doesn't "phone home", I just haven't had the time to do the research myself yet.
@nickh So far I haven't seen any "google-ly" settings like the actual Chrome has. No online sign in to sync browser settings, etc. If you want to sync it with Brave mobile you have to scan a QR code to so. But I'll pop open a terminal app and scope it out. Working faster than Chrome was to say the least. or FF.
