girst

well, compared to undisclosed affiliate marketing for trading sites[1], soliciting of donations without consent[2] or the recent redirection through affiliate links[3], this seems pretty tame.

I've disliked Brave from the beginning. Initially because of the pretentious - and frankly appropriated - name, but now for the much more substantive reasons you've cited.

Seriously, if you want a browser that gives you control over your data and privacy, use Firefox. It doesn't do any of this shady nonsense.

rattray

How can I get these two features on Firefox:

1. Block scripts on certain domains

2. Block ads & tracking (including on Android)

Those are my favorite Brave features. How do I get them on Firefox?

pmoriarty

I use uMatrix to block scripts on certain domains. I used to use NoScript for this, but switched to uMatrix when I found that it gave me much more fine-grained control over what to allow or block.

For ad-blocking, I supplement uMatrix with uBlock Origin. It has its own block lists that it perodically

On top of that, I use privoxy as an http proxy. Unfortunately, it can't filter https.

Yet another part of my defense is DNS blocklists that I put in to /etc/hosts.[1]

Using this combination, I virtually never see any ads.

[1] - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts