<story><title>Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2020/02/25/brave-browser-and-the-wayback-machine-working-together-to-help-make-the-web-more-useful-and-reliable/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FillardMillmore</author><text>Opinions are obviously split here among HNers about the merits of Brave and what it&amp;#x27;s actually trying to achieve.&lt;p&gt;I can only speak for myself but I find that Brave as a daily driver is a wonderful browser. Since it&amp;#x27;s built on Chromium, it has all the common extensions I use with Chrome (Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, etc.). It has built-in Tor and a rich set of default privacy features. The ads it provides are opt-in and the way that it allows the user to choose which website&amp;#x2F;content creators to reward allows a level of freedom to users that other browsers typically don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know about the ethics behind everything Brave is doing - but this built in functionality of 404 redirects with the help of the IA&amp;#x2F;Wayback Machine is, to me, an interesting and welcome feature. I did not know, before reading this thread, that other browsers had plugins&amp;#x2F;extensions available for this. The fact that Brave is simply building it in natively seems to be a bold move. If other browsers adopt similar functionality natively, we&amp;#x27;ll know that it was a winning move. When all is said and done, despite any missteps Brave may be making, it is trying a different approach, and I think that in the end, whether or not Brave succeeds, that&amp;#x27;s healthy for a competitive browser ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;Edit: One thing I&amp;#x27;d really like to see for Brave&amp;#x27;s mobile browser in the future is the ability to use Chrome extensions - it seems completely strange to me that this hasn&amp;#x27;t been implemented yet (if I&amp;#x27;m slow on the uptake and this capability has been added, please correct me)</text></comment>
<story><title>Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2020/02/25/brave-browser-and-the-wayback-machine-working-together-to-help-make-the-web-more-useful-and-reliable/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>katsura</author><text>I used Brave for a couple of months, but in the end I had to switch, because it is just not ready to be used in everyday situations.&lt;p&gt;I actually tried their crypto ads, out of curiosity. I had some BATs collected, then I reinstalled my machine, used their backup code to import the wallet again, but it showed zero value. I contacted them about this, never got an answer.&lt;p&gt;The sync was causing a crash for some people, so they turned it off for everybody. It was off for at least a week, and maybe even now. But even when it was turned on, it didn&amp;#x27;t sync properly between my iPhone and my laptop.&lt;p&gt;The browser frame is rendered weirdly both under xfce and kde. I had to resize the window and maximize again, to get the min&amp;#x2F;max&amp;#x2F;close buttons properly rendered, and make some random border disappear.&lt;p&gt;There were sites where I couldn&amp;#x27;t log in even after turning off the shield.&lt;p&gt;On my iPhone for some reason when I searched something in DDG, clicked on it, then went back, DDG was rendered, then tried to scroll, and the previous site started bleeding through from the bottom of the screen. The URL bar showed DDG, but nothing was clickable. Refreshing the page didn&amp;#x27;t work, so I had to force close the browser and open again to see my search query. Interestingly Google seemed to be working, although I only use it for like 1-2% of my search queries, so I cannot be sure.&lt;p&gt;In the dev tools the audits tab didn&amp;#x27;t work at all. Couldn&amp;#x27;t connect an Android device for remote debugging.&lt;p&gt;In the end all the little annoyances just made me uninstall it, because for me it is just too much to put up with all these. It definitely has some interesting ideas, but I cannot recommend it just yet.</text></comment>