<story><title>Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust</title><url>https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robbrown451</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m impressed with Brave. I&amp;#x27;ve started using it as my primary browser (after a couple false starts a year or so ago) and it has all the best of Chrome without the worst.&lt;p&gt;There is controversy about how Brave does stuff, and I agree there is some sketchy stuff they are doing (replacing ads with their own). I&amp;#x27;m glad they are giving us a choice, though, and exploring different options for sites being able to makes some money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justsee</author><text>Switched from Firefox to Brave in the last year across devices and not looking back (though I do miss containers!).&lt;p&gt;Blocking ads and trackers by default is pretty much essential in 2019.&lt;p&gt;The myth about ad replacement doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to want to die though!&lt;p&gt;There is no ad replacement, though the roadmap says at some time in the future publishers who opt-in will have the option to have their ad-slots filled by Brave&amp;#x27;s privacy-respecting approach.&lt;p&gt;For now I think the only ad trials running are pop-up notifications if users opt-in, and that&amp;#x27;s only in a few markets at this stage.&lt;p&gt;Not something I plan to opt-in to, but looking forward to the Github &amp;#x2F; Reddit &amp;#x2F; Twitter tipping and integrated crypto wallet.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s all rolling through in the next few months.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust</title><url>https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robbrown451</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m impressed with Brave. I&amp;#x27;ve started using it as my primary browser (after a couple false starts a year or so ago) and it has all the best of Chrome without the worst.&lt;p&gt;There is controversy about how Brave does stuff, and I agree there is some sketchy stuff they are doing (replacing ads with their own). I&amp;#x27;m glad they are giving us a choice, though, and exploring different options for sites being able to makes some money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalist</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;and it has all the best of Chrome without the worst&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I mean, what is the &amp;quot;worst&amp;quot; stuff it doesn&amp;#x27;t have? Account sign in?&lt;p&gt;It seems like there are plenty of other Chromium embedders to get that without the sketchy stuff.</text></comment>