Brave found a new place to advertise their VPN
I personally don’t mind it that much, maintaining a browser is not free, so of course they need to sell their services and while you may consider this ad intrusive to me it’s not, it’s just on the new tab page so you can easily dismiss it. If they start to do pop ups or ads that directly impact the browsing experience then I will be bother by it.
The browser wars are crazy, lol.
I recently gave brave for android another shot because they added element blocking to their shields and I gotta say, they have some… interesting bugs going on.
First, it couldn’t recognize that it was already the default browser on start up. It was just frozen on the “welcome to brave” screen. I had to re-enable Chrome, set it as my default, and then RE-disable it. Even after it kept asking me if I wanted to make it the default browser every time I opened the app. I’ve tried a lot of browsers and that was a first.
The second thing that I noticed is the “forget me when I leave this site” feature just straight up doesn’t work. Cookie, cache, and site data are all still there after closing the site. The most interesting part is after searching the brave community about it, it’s been a know issue for over a year now with no fix. I mean I’m no coder but… That doesn’t seem like the hardest thing to fix? But I suppose brave wallet and rewards are higher priorities.
The third issue i ran into is definitely the most serious as the others I mentioned are annoying, but don’t necessarily impact performance. I’m in the middle of scrolling Reddit and it just force closes out and crashes. I thought, that was odd, but stuff happens. Loaded brave back up and it happened again… And again. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had an app crash like that. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn’t correct the issue for me.
I honestly don’t know why this browser is recommended as much as it is. It has a lot of cool features (when they work) but idk. It just isn’t for me I suppose.
Better that than crypto and things built-in
I can put up with them advertising their VPN in the mobile browser’s Settings screen (a dismissible banner) or in their desktop browser’s toolbar (removable), or having a Settings section devoted to it, but this is a bit more annoying.
Not quite as bad as it being an unremovable item in the overflow menu.
Not nearly as bad as installing it as a system-level service on Windows without asking permission.
But still kind of bad.
I just don’t want this VPN.
It make sense to advertise it there, if one would like to learn methods to “hide” his internet activity.
But we get it: everything Brave does is bad by definition. Well done. Now, have a cookie and go back to FF.
Brave is better than dealing with annoying ads. It was running perfectly when Chrome made changes to the manifest and YouTube started blocking ad blockers. It’s okay now since they’re not forcing ads down your throat.
the reason I trust brave is because I know where their source of revenue comes from. and this is how they make a profit.
One can Ignore it and just search whatever he wants.
An Unemployed Person : Make a post about it
Brave is so ass, wtf is brave rewards, why would I want my crypto wallet to be built in my browser and why the hell would I wan to do video calls on my browser? To top it all you do that AI Leo bullshit built into it as well
for the people who are defending this bullshit by saying it’s a free service. you couldn’t have been anymore wrong browsers easily generate profits despite you not paying anything since they just collect your data and sell it. whether it’s personalized or anonymized will depend on the browser. brave has always had one of the worst marketing practices for long time now (not because of this post obviously).
It’s a grifting vector, I don’t know why people even bother with it.
I never really understood why people care about stuff like this. When I saw Brave VPN for the first time, I decided I wasn’t interested and never paid attention to it again.
Holy damn, this is petty. Its not a pop-up, just open the private tab and go straight to searching. I’ve been using brave mobile for so long I’ve never actually read what is written there until now…
How about Mozilla that push its VPN on Firefox’s instead of showing “whats new on this update” page every time it gets updated? Which one do you think makes more sense?
I stand by my belief that Brave is just a browser for tech illiterate paranoid white people.
It’s crazy how these people believe that a VPN is like a magic program that hides everything you do or that their browser offers any actual security measures that aren’t standard in literally every other browser.
Edit: wowie, a lot of triggered whites replying to me because I dared say “white”.
“how dare you say ‘white’!, that’s racist!!! you’re a racist pig!!! I’m reporting you and censoring you!!!” holy shit you’re all so fucking fragile.
Usually professionals have to make money. Want amateurs, get Zen, and enjoy the 6GB ram with 30 tabs open
To play Devil’s advocate, running websites is not free either, especially larger high traffic media sites. While many of those certainly have ads that directly impact browsing, many do not. Yet, many of us use ad blockers to block those ads, both the intrusive and non-intrusive alike.
There’s different levels of annoyance for sure
- Present. A feature that ships with a product that shouldn’t take up disk space, but does anyway.
- Unobtrusive, removable: doesn’t interfere with the UX besides existing where you might not want it to exist
- Unobtrusive, unremovable: we are here
- Obtrusive, removable: gets in the way of other content by requiring you to navigate around it (e.g. Settings VPN ad)
- Obtrusive, unremovable: similar, except it cannot be dismissed (e.g. the Brave VPN overflow menu item)
- Distracting: things like pop-ups that demand user attention through visual change
- Demanding: things like modals that halt the UX until dealt with.
Well, that was a first crack at it anyway.
I don’t know if this is necessarily a good scale because arguably Eric Andre screaming at you would be level 3, full-screen cryptocurrency ads as wallpapers would be level 2, and prompting to be your default browser would be a 6. Maybe the last one doesn’t matter because it’s a browser promoting itself.