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<blockquote data-quote="oldschool" data-source="post: 1119430" data-attributes="member: 71262">You might say that, but only in part.No, they just provide features for users who do use crypto.NoYes, but they&#039;re not intrusive ... Brave Search Premium gets you ad-free results. Only if you opt-in to Rewards, which then serves &quot;privacy friendly&quot; ads that don&#039;t track you.You can&#039;t block 1st party ads, e.g. if you&#039;re on GMail, Google may track you and there&#039;s no defense against it. You opt in to whatever a website is serving up to you when you go to it. You get 1st party whatever, it&#039;s all or nothing.Brave is a good option that respects privacy better than most other browsers. Some folks object to it on account of principles, e.g.dislike of crypto, etc., or because of feature bloat, e.g. like crypto, etc. [USER=60675]@Sunshine-boy[/USER] is absolutely correct about the security advantages of Chromium browsers, but only the major ones. I personally will only use one of the major browsers precisely because they get timely updates. Edge or Chrome over other forks like Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox over Waterfox, LibreWolf, etc. Some forks like Waterfox and others are worse for privacy. Check who owns and develops them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldschool, post: 1119430, member: 71262"] You might say that, [I]but only in part.[/I] No, they just provide features for users who do use crypto. No Yes, but they're not intrusive ... Brave Search Premium gets you ad-free results. Only if you opt-in to Rewards, which then serves "privacy friendly" ads that [I]don't track you.[/I] You can't block 1st party ads, e.g. if you're on GMail, Google may track you and there's no defense against it. You opt in to whatever a website is serving up to you when you go to it. You get 1st party whatever, it's all or nothing. Brave is a good option that respects privacy better than most other browsers. Some folks object to it on account of principles, e.g.dislike of crypto, etc., or because of feature bloat, e.g. like crypto, etc. [USER=60675]@Sunshine-boy[/USER] is absolutely correct about the security advantages of Chromium browsers, but only the major ones. I personally will only use one of the major browsers precisely because they get timely updates. Edge or Chrome over other forks like Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox over Waterfox, LibreWolf, etc. Some forks like Waterfox and others are worse for privacy. Check who owns and develops them. [/QUOTE]

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