Brave browser è sicuro?, il miglior browser simile a Google Chrome

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Brave is the best alternative similar to Google Chrome

Let's get back to talking about Browsers for desktop, after having told you and explained why use Firefox it's time to talk to you a little about Brave. The next articles will instead be dedicated to Vivaldi, to Tor Browsers, to Midori and many others. These articles, we remind you, are dedicated to Browsers for desktop. You can find the list of alternatives for Android and iOS here. From Brave we have already mentioned it in the past when someone exaggerated the alleged scandal a little which wasn't a scandal after all. So we ask ourselves: Brave Browsers it's safe?

We feel it is necessary to make some introductions for those who are new and for those who have ended up here by chance. We never want to take anything for granted.
The Browsers it is the program that allows you to surf the internet, the one that Grandmother generally calls “Open Google“. In fact, almost everyone now uses it Google Chrome and they assume that this is the internet. In the long run war of the Browsers however there are only three left, which for simplicity we will divide in this way even if it is not entirely technically correct: Chromium, Firefox And Safari.

FOR THOSE IN A RUSH:

Brave it is very similar to Google Chrome but respects privacy by default thanks also to an integrated ad blocker. With basic settings it protects it better than any other Browsers.

By activating Brave Rewards you can make donations to websites and creators, i.e. all profiles Twitter And Reddit for example, without using your own money. In fact, you can directly transfer the revenue from the advertising you see thanks to cryptocurrency BAT created by Brave.

The project risks having some problems in the future due to the Manifest v3 Of Chromium and for the policies of Apple. Update: since the Brave shield is included in the code, Manifest v3 may not touch it ¹.

Brave is the best alternative similar to Google Chrome

Almost all Browsers that you know are based on Chromium, including also Microsoft Edge and Opera, which is a project Open source ² Of Google from which it derives Google Chrome. Then, there is Firefox from which it derives for example Tor Browsers and finally there is the Browsers of Apple, Safari.

Having finished the introduction, we tell you what we think Brave And the best Chrome-like alternative which you can find on desktop. As well as Chrome, in fact, too Brave is based on the project Open source Chromium of which it is a so-called Fork. It therefore looks a lot like Google Chrome and can therefore be a step less for many drastic as compared to Firefox. The default settings of Brave They protect your privacy better than anything else Browsers leaving navigation on the sites almost intact. Brave in fact, it uses algorithms and techniques inspired by the mythical uBlock Origin it's at Cliqz ³ to block advertising e tracers without the need to install any extension.

Brave was developed by Brendan Eich and by Brian Bondy. Brendan Eich is also the creator of JavaScript: one of the most used programming languages on the internet ⁴. The principle on which it is based is very interesting: the Browsers in fact he was born with a Complete built-in ad blocking system, of blocking of tracers and also excellent resistance to Fingerprinting ⁵ ⁶. As we have seen in the past, it is always one of the best Browsers in online automatic tests: The Browsers What use protects me from advertising? And Being anonymous online?.

Why Brave Browsers Is it that contested?

Eich, the CEO of Brave, is a controversial character and (also) for this reason Brave he doesn't have an easy life. We already talked about it some time ago in the article What's this about Brave?. Long story short: there are a few reasons why you will receive a lot of insults if you even try to mention them Brave in certain IT contexts. We summarize them here:

Some people, as in all areas, are real fans. Believe it or not, there are also fanboy Of Firefox (just as there are also the fanboy of Brave, but the community is smaller).

Brave it's based on Chromium. As we always say, this could be a problem in terms of future development of the web, however in our opinion Brave is a compromise for those who don't know and don't want to make changes to theirs Browsers.

Eich funded with 1000$ in 2008 and with 2100$ in 2010 proposals to ban same-sex marriage in California. He did it as a private citizen, before becoming CEO of Firefox and, subsequently, of Brave. In 2014 he apologized for that episode and worked to support the community LGBT ⁷, he subsequently decided to resign as CEO of Mozilla due to too much pressure received.

Brave And Open source ⁸ but the company that manages it is private. Its business model is the BAT cryptocurrency (which we will talk about further below). Some people frown upon the fact that it is, in fact, an advertising agency and that it is a private company.

If you are interested in the complete article on the history of Brave you find it here. We try to avoid the fans and always try to evaluate all the aspects: negative and also positive of one alternative or the other. If we propose again Brave it's because ultimately to date It seems like an excellent compromise to us. No one can say what will happen tomorrow and we are here for this too, to always offer you valid and up-to-date alternatives.

Brave and Firefox

Let's get back to us. Technically, without touching any settings, Brave it is safer and protects Firefox more ⁹ ¹⁰. Firefox, however, is much more customizable and by following some guides (like this) protects more.

You understand how important it is to help an inexperienced person install a Browsers without necessarily adding "eh but wait, you have to install this, this and that first". We believe that both can be recommended Browsers: for those who are capable and willing to make changes Firefox, for those who want comfort Brave.

Brave Browsers it's safe?

As we said Brave it's a Browsers very safe and offers a series of very interesting active default protections. You can find them inside the lion-shaped shield on the address bar. This shield will tell you how many tracers it's blocking within that site. By clicking on Advanced view you can also find out what are the tracers blocked. There are many other settings you can set for each site such as script blocking or gods Cookies. With basic settings and without touching anything it is still very good.

Going in Settings – Protections ¹¹ you can change the basic settings of all sites: if you want greater protection you can decide to raise the level to Aggressive and put on The blockade is rigid Fingerprinting. Even with the greatest restrictions, we rarely found a site not opening correctly. If you like advanced viewing, you can activate it here for all the sites you visit.

Brave It also has settings and features that make it truly unique Browsers unique. Some examples:

It has the Tor connection built into anonymous mode ¹². It is not how to use Tor Browsers ¹³ but it's probably better to just use private browsing.

When you end up on a page with 404 error will automatically ask you if you want to search for an existing version of that page on Archive.org's Wayback Machine.

It has a built-in client Torrents which is based on WebTorrent. You can therefore, for example, download videos from PeerTube and share your bandwidth with the portal! ¹⁴

It is the first (and so far only) Browsers to have integrated the new IPFS communication protocol ¹⁵. A new protocol to make the web a decentralized and therefore better place. An example? Someone Wikipedia pages they are and in this way it is possible to avoid the censorship of dictatorial states. This link is an example: ipfs://bafybeiemxf5abjwjbikoz4mc3a3dla6ual3jsgpdr4cjr3oz3evfyavhwq/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh.html. With Brave you can open it.

To download it, just go to brave.com. You tell us that for the system Linux only the addition of the is found Repositories. But, for those who want more options and a direct download, on this link at the bottom you will also find the stable version: https://github.com/brave/brave-Browsers/releases

But what are BATs?

Please note: this entire part is optional and opt-in. It means that if you don't activate it, none of this will affect you.

We briefly answer questions we have read around

No, not undermined Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency using Brave.

The whole part relating to tipping towards the creators it is anonymous ¹⁶. Brave was born for protect privacy.

It is not mandatory to click on the banners you will receive once activated Brave Rewards. You will not earn more by clicking on the banners, you will just need to receive them as a notification ¹⁷. You will therefore not have to click compulsively to earn more.

No, Brave it's not one scam and whoever says it is probably just doing it to throw mud on the project.

However, the world of cryptocurrency is full of criminals. Our advice, for those who are not experts and just want to help the creators, is to DO NOT open an Uphold account but to enable only i Brave Rewards activating automatic or manual tipping.

Brave he decided to go beyond being good Browsers and as we were saying it has a business plan True unlike others Browsers on the market which are often based almost exclusively on affiliations (such as Firefox And Vivaldi, for example).

Brave it has in fact thrown down the gauntlet to internet ads, now in the hands of the duopoly Google And Amazon. We are clearly referring only to the banners and affiliations present on websites that allow webmasters to return expenses and earn something. We know well that the true duopoly of online advertising is almost exclusively in the hands of Facebook And Google ¹⁸.

In fact, you can sign up for their loyalty program to receive BAT in exchange for totally anonymous sponsored ads thanks to the program Brave Rewards. ¹⁹. Basic TOattention Tokens is a cryptocurrency created by Brave which is based on the Ethereum blockchain ²⁰. In practice you can decide to earn cryptocurrency (BAT) to donate to the creators or to keep for yourself.

You don't need to have a website to be a creator and possibly earn money BAT: in addition to the sites, all you need is an account Twitter, an account Youtube, an account on Reddit or up Twitch ²¹.

A reward for your attention

Who uses Brave in fact, you can set it to send automatic monthly micro-donations to all the sites you visit or you can decide to deactivate micro-donations and donate a total to a single website.

In case you are interested, we are approved creators if you use them Brave you'll see that at the top of the address bar a blue check appears.
Ours is also an experiment to understand if a site like ours could survive only thanks to these micropayments given that one of the criticisms of Brave it's really “but what's the point BAT?”. Were we to succeed it would be, in our opinion, a huge achievement. As we explain in the section Transparency if we were to receive more BAT than necessary to maintain the site we will redistribute them via the tipping same as Brave.

The automatic micro-donation system is based on the attention you give to the various pages (Basic Attention Tokens, precisely). If you often look at a site that has an account Brave Creators you will make him a micro-donation and so on for all the sites you visit.

Over 500,000 content creators on Brave

To make you understand that we are not talking about a scam or a niche thing, we are beyond us 500 thousand content creators including the ANDelectronic Frontier Ffoundation, Wikipedia, Tor Project, The Washington Post, The Guardian, DuckDuckGo And Qwant. In Italy they have recently started to accept them too collective Devol with their services such as mastodon.one.

You can also decide to open an account on Uphold And cash in the loot. However, keep in mind that we are generally talking about a few BAT monthly which averages around €0.30 for each BAT (today it is around €0.50, two months ago it was €0.20). Certainly don't think about becoming a millionaire and also take into account what we said before: the world of cryptocurrencies is full of scammers, such as famous scam on Twitter last summer ²².

Thanks to donations and micro-donations you can also help projects because there are many people who donate a few cents they could actually replace AdSense ads. You can also decide to donate only a part and keep another for yourself. In short, you are free to do whatever you want, after all you are the one getting paid for your attention.

Six BAT we can't know whether they will have a future or not, but to date it seems like a decent and interesting project to follow.

Brave wants to be more than just Browsers

There are many people who criticize Brave precisely for this reason, because it is also an advertising company focused on privacy and not just a Browsers. We find it an interesting model because someone needs to put a spanner in the works Google and its advertising monopoly ²³. The announcements of Brave in fact they are anonymous and so are the donations you make. Privacy is one of the fundamental points for Brave ²⁴ which in the meantime has decided to also have its own ecosystem as Brave Today, Brave Firewall + VPN And Brave Together.

Micro-donations can potentially make a real difference for small blogs they often fill their site with Google AdSense you hate Amazon sponsored links in the hope of bringing home a few euros. In this way, in fact, there is no clickbait that matters: it is the user who decides who to give his money to and who rewards those who create quality content. You are not rewarded based on how many "clicks" you take home but based on the content created. A fundamental paradigm shift for the quality of articles on the internet.

Final considerations

We end the article with a couple of necessary notes: part of the future of Brave unfortunately it is uncertain. Being a Fork Of Chromium it must bring with it some strengths and some flaws. Chromium it will soon move to a new format, so to speak, called Manifest v3 ²⁵. It's a big change and second Brendan Eich (the co-founder of Brave) this can severely harm privacy as Manifest v3 removes or reduces functionality needed for tracking prevention extensions ²⁶. So Brave, in case you wanted to remain anchored to the original project Chromium it may be forced to follow this strategy and worsen its functioning. Or it could remain anchored to Manifest v2 for as long as possible. We will only find out later.

Update: being the shield of Brave included in the code Manifest v3, it is very likely that Brave you won't have any kind of problem with this (unlike extensions like uBlock Origin) ¹.

Last note is on the application Brave for cell phones. They work decently though on Android generally we recommend something else. The problem, however, arose with iOS where, according to Apple's new rules, Brave will no longer be able to earn BAT. And he won't even be able to send money to the creators anymore. This because Apple demands that only one system be used Apple to pay ²⁷. The fear of many is that too Google I may soon decide to follow this path by making the journey Brave much more tortuous than it already is.

Final recommendations

Brave is a legal and very interesting project, it's not a scam. However, if you activate BAT, be careful because you may receive advertising about online trading. Even online trading is obviously not illegal but if you decide to do it, do it conscientiously or by being followed Always from someone.

In case you have any doubts about BAT and don't trust anything forces you to activate them. You can very well use it Brave in all its functions without ever activating advertisements and BAT. In fact, Brave is completely free BAT they are just an opportunity for creators and to create a new user-creator relationship: they are not mandatory.

Alternatives to Brave:

Firefox, It is one of Browsers most famous and used. As we have seen it's probably better than Brave but only if well personalized.

On Android you can try Brave . It's been disappointing us a bit lately DuckDuckGo Privacy Browsers (read why here).

On iOS there aren't many Browsers Open source alternatives you can try DuckDuckGo Privacy Browsers, SnowHaze or Firefox Focus if you don't like it Brave.

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