Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.
Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75%
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
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nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 41 pts · 240d
... but leaving its scamminess levels unchanged
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 240d
Tbh even apart from the scams, Brave is such a crappy UX compared to Firefox/LibreWolf/IronFox that I wouldn't use it regardless. Idk why people hype this garbage
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 240d
Brave is the only browser I'm aware of that allows you to easily toggle cookies on and off on a per-site basis. This seems like an obvious and important privacy feature but no one else offers it.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 240d
uBlock Origin is another engine.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 240d
I'm not sure how it compares to Brave but I did some benchmarks and found uBO to use significantly less RAM than alternatives like AdGuard. Nevermind that it's more trustworthy by far than basically all the alternatives...
smeg@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 240d
Alternative spyware is no better than Google spyware
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 239d
Brave is/was funded by Peter Theil and Brandon Eich is an advisor for Palantir. Hard pass.
ksigley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 239d
Yep. Stay away from Brave.
MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 239d
So, I'm guessing they coded it originally with an LLM, and then used more LLMs to optimize and fix the shit from the first pass.
"Look guys: our steaming pile of shit is slightly smaller"
To be clear: this is completely unfounded conjecture, but it sounds in-line to me for Brave.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 240d
Nice.