Brendon Eich, who was expelled from mozilla, has released today Brave. It is available for Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android. I have been using the android beta, and it saves tiem with installs.
On my work mac, the install went well. I am using Brave to access wordpress, and that is working well and quickly. Screenshot of the front page of the website below
The thing they “get” with Brave is about Ads: most people don’t mind ads. We’re used to them and aware of why they are there. What web-users *HATE* is what happens to webpages because they’re so damn full of them. Most websites barely work, even on good systems, when you leave the Ads on. If Brave acts as an intermediary (and a “trusted agent” as well), they can make the pages work well, some Ads (non-tracked) display, and everyone makes out decently for it. The “kick back” provision system, while possibly a legal nightmare (more on that in the future), also seems very well thought out.
I turn off Ad-blockers (I’ve switched to uBlock Origin in all instances recently) only very rarely. Even on sites I would like to support. But most websites really are terrible places with the Ads turned on. Heck, I’ve completely removed Flash from my main computers and things just work better in general. A sad state of affairs.