Brave Browser

[Sailor Steve]

Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but I only stumbled across this yesterday. I was following a trail involving tracking and such, and up popped a YouTube video proclaiming Brave as the best browser of 2018.


The team that created Brave is led by Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and the man who created JavaScript. It's fairly spartan in appearance and function, but its Settings page lets you control what search engine you use and several other parameters with a click of the mouse. It also has a built-in ad-blocker that seems to work quite well, and one of the controllable functions is anti-tracking, which can be set from all to some to no tracking at all.

There are better browsers out there for different purposes, but Brave is one of the ones that focuses on privacy more than anything else. I'm liking it so far, but I'll be trying others as well.
https://www.brave.com/

ps: One thing this has done for me is open up the way I view the internet. I knew about the biggies, and they all had things I didn't like. Now I suddenly find myself more open to experimenting with alternative browsers and search engines.

pps: Based on what I've read during my search I've also switched to DuckDuckGo for my search engine. It too seems to be focused mainly on privacy, and someone has said that if you open two separate search windows it doesn't even track itself! We'll see.