Brave browser has been my default browser for a long time now over Chrome. Chrome was starting to get a little bloated and lag as more tracking was added to websites. Including SSL certs being a must but most websites not yet having them also lead me to Brave.

Brave browser is free, you can import everything you have on chrome over to brave with just a few clicks as it operates off of the chrome browser code itself. It blocks tracking codes and some ads (I turn off the ad block on LeoFinance for example or sites I want to show support to. It also defaults sites over to SSL which is a nice plus for security.

Brave prides itself on being a browser that takes privacy seriously as well as security.

This number used to be a lot more I believe it was at 3 days before my hard drive crashed and burned during one of my trips a few months back. That means this is about 6 months worth of using brave browser. A quarter of a million trackers and ads block in just 6 months! Just think of all that information site were trying to pull from me. It's a bit excessive.

Braves New Features

A fine line is starting to be drawn and one I hope doesn't get crossed otherwise brave and it's token BAT will most likely go belly up. A new feature called Brave Today is a new aggregator that is integrated into the browser.

This section is suppose to aggerate content based on your actions online. It's why your feeds are so customized on sites like Twitter, Google search, Facebook etc. No longer do followers matter all of your data is instead tracked and like content is shown to you instead.

This new section should only pull content from your machine and not from some database that others can access. By keeping the data on your machine it makes you more in control. However is it walking that fine line? Perhaps a option to opt out of it would be best or better yet the option to optin (leaving the default as not being a part of it) What I hate most about companies is when they auto default you into some new update of theirs.

This is done through machine learning and a new method called "Federated Learning With Privacy" it stores data on your machine instead of on a server and uses machine learning to figure out what content should be pushed to you.

Braves Soon To Come Features

In March of this year Brave acquired Tailcat which is a open search engine that will be used for what is known to be "Brave Search" it is suppose to be a non-tracking alternative to Google search.

Do you feel this is a breach of contract when you joined Brave? Or is this type of new tracking system ok?

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