Tag: Brave

Welcome to the Brave new world!

Correct – I just couldn’t help myself. I’m definitely shilling for Brave browser now. :) 

This category contains my posts about the browser called Brave and the associated cryptocurrency, Basic Attention Token, BAT.

Brave browser logoI’ve been struggling with Google Chrome for a while, now. Back in the day, they definitely had the best developer tools out-of-the-box, and we’re a great compromise between user friendliness and my requirements for the browser I use for work stuff. However, the privacy concerns have always been there (I was mortified when Google introduced the automatic login with your Gmail account), and the browser has become more and more bloated. An additional pain point for myself has been Google’s negative, and almost snarky attitude towards competitors like Microsoft Edge (and even Edgium) on their web properties. Brave provides pretty much the same features – just with less tradeoffs.

Anyway – any new competition in the browser space is good in my books, and Brave provides exactly the right kind of competition.

If you want to support my blog, a perfect way to do that would be to download Brave browser using my referral link – and if you actually like it and continue using it, I get a small BAT grant from the Brave developers. So please do give it a try!

https://brave.com/kos048

Internet Explorer finally gets left behind

The boring version of browser wars is upon us

The next browser war is upon us, and this time it isn’t fought on the battlefield of proprietary API implementations and badly implemented CSS and JavaScript standards, but rather it’s different ecosystems battling it out with their respective variants of Blink, which itself is a part of open source Chromium. Sounds boring, right? And to some extent it really is. No Firefox fanboys, no Opera elitists and Internet explorer normies keeping to their respective corners of the public space, each group looking down on the…Continue reading The boring version of browser wars is upon us

Brave browser settings view

Enter the BRAVE new world of Chromium forks!

I’m trying out a new, more long-form content on this blog – tell me what you think about it in the comments section below! This article explains one of the only cryptocurrency initiatives I find to be kind of level-headed – Basic Attention Token – and the browser that’s pretty tightly coupled with it, Brave. Note: If you just want to skip all the banter and download the hecking browser, click this. Preface As far as different cryptocurrencies go, there have been quite a few…Continue reading Enter the BRAVE new world of Chromium forks!