What is the most annoying thing you encounter while using the internet?
Let me guess. Annoying pop-ads or inappropriate ads that has littered the web space. Most of these ads are merely a distraction and spoil the user experience. When I say user experience, I mean the reading experience. Because of these ads, the tech-savvy people use ad-blocker plugins in their browser.
Apart from the advertisement, one more thing which is ignored by masses is tracking cookies. Cookies are a concern of privacy for long but most people don’t really care for that because cookies do help in improving the browser experience.
Brave: A browser that blocks tracking by default
Keeping privacy, security, performance and ad-annoyance in mind, ex-CEO of Mozilla and creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich started a new open source web browser Brave.
The main promised features of Brave are focused on three points:
- Fast browsing: by blocking trackers and intrusive ads that slows down the browsing
- Secure browsing: blocks harmful advertising and redirects sites to HTTPS using HTTPS Everywhere
- Privacy: blocks tracking Pixels and tracking Cookies
That sounds more like the features of a browser plugin, rather than a full-fledged browser, isn’t it?
Brave promises that users will be getting a faster, secure, clean and ad-free web browsing. But you cannot simply kill ads from the website. After all, the publisher rely on the income from the ads, don’t they?
Brave rewards publishers with its own payment system
Initially, Brave planned to replace the websites’ ads with its own ‘cleaner ads’. That didn’t happen. Instead, Brave introduced a payment system that allows readers to pay certain amount to their favorite websites either automatically or manually.
Brave is also working on an option to enable users to ‘opt for ads’ for their favorite websites.
If you start using Brave on our invitation, It’s FOSS will get some reward points from Brave.
Install Brave browser on Linux
Brave used to provide a snap package but it has been discontinued. You’ll have to install it through the package manager of your distribution.
Installing Brave browser on Ubuntu and Debian based distributions
For Ubuntu and Debian based distributions, here’s what you need to do.
First, install curl and allow apt over HTTPS:
sudo apt install apt-transport-https curlAdd the Brave repository key to your system:
curl -s https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc | sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/brave-browser-release.gpg add -And then add the Brave repository in the sources.list.d directory:
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.listNow update the system and install Brave:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install brave-browserSince the Brave repository is added to the system, your installed Brave version will be updated when you update your Ubuntu system.
How to remove Brave browser from Ubuntu and Debian
sudo apt remove brave-browserYou should also remove the leftover packages with the autoremove command:
sudo apt autoremoveNow, the Brave repository is still added along with its GPG key. You may leave it as it is (so that you can install Brave later) or you may delete them.
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list*You may also search and find its GPG key and delete it.
Installing Brave browser on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat
Follow the following commands one by one:
sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/
sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc
sudo dnf install brave-browserInstalling Brave browser on SUSE Linux
Use the following commands one by one:
sudo zypper install curl
sudo rpm --import https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-core.asc
sudo zypper addrepo https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/x86_64/ brave-browser
sudo zypper install brave-browserYou can also install it from source code. You can find source code of Brave on its GitHub repository.
Brave is also available on other platforms like Windows, macOS and mobile platforms like Android and iOS.
How’s your experience with Brave Browser?
Do you use Brave browser regularly? Do you think it can replace Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome? What’s your view on the Brave payment system?
Share your views with the rest of us in the comment section.
Blocks the ads. Job #1 success! I am going to say this one last time: Let me return to the video I was just looking at accidentally advanced away from. OR I will methodically work against whatever intentions you have. For instance, that is how I deal with intrusive ads: Whatever it is, they lose the sale. Just let me return to where I was. I will sometimes realize that I cannot return to, say, the 3rd video down from the video I just advanced away from. Your system makes difficult.
Sad to see that this is only offered as a Snap package, in my experience Snap packages have given me problems several times and I stopped installing any. Flatpaks always work great for me, so would like the option to use Flatpak to install it as well.
Well, I’ve been using Brave for over a year and have never regretted having left the “heavyweights” – Google and Fox.
Not only is this browser convenient in every sense, it is also very fast and eliminates advertising, which is very important to me.
Well, privacy is also very important.
There is only one problem – it is impossible to install this on some distributions.
I used brave for about a year and then it just disappeared from my desktop. I can not find it in the Ubuntu software center either.
No 32 bit support……..????