![]() ![]() This allows the site to create a profile that can, in effect, track a machine’s web use. It does other things to protect user privacy as well - like blocking fingerprinting scripts, which are used by many sites to gather bits of data about a visitor’s machine, that are then put together to form a unique “fingerprint” of the device. It’s fast, said to be lightweight enough to make a noticeable difference in laptop battery life, and like most privacy-focused browsers, it comes configured out-of-the-box to block ads from being served from third party sites such as Google’s and Microsoft’s adservers (full disclosure: FOSS Force displays ads from Google). In case you’re not familiar, Brave is an open-source browser based on Chromium that’s designed to be a privacy respecting alternative to Google Chrome. If not for that, I would be using it as my daily online driver, because it’s a great browser. ![]() It’s too bad that Brave Software, the company behind the Brave browser, bases its business model on cryptocurrency. ![]() Brave co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich giving a keynote address at the World Digital Asset Summit in Singapore on May 3, 2018. Next week we’ll be taking an in-depth dive into Vivaldi. This look at the open source Brave Browser is the first of five articles that FOSS Force will be running in January that will look at five web browsers that are alternatives to the dominate browsers, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
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