Brave vs. Chrome: Vilken webbläsare är bättre?

9 april 2020 · 3 min läst · Kommentarer

Jag har använt Brave i 6 månader hittills. Nedan är en jämförelse mellan Brave och Google Chrome när det gäller hastighet, integritet och säkerhet.

Först - Vad är modig?

• Brave was founded by Brendan Eich, who invented JavaScript and cofounded Mozilla (which makes Firefox).
• Instead of re-making a browser from the ground up, Brave used the same technology as Chrome (the chromium engine) while making small tweaks to increase speed, privacy, and security.

Hastighet

• Unlike Chrome, Brave blocks ads and trackers by default.
• This allows websites on Brave to load noticeably faster than Chrome. Below is a speed test between Brave, Chrome, and Firefox.

• Brave's speed increase is especially noticeable on sites with heavy tracking (ex: news sites) and sites with content-blocking video ads (ex: YouTube).

• Brave tracks the time it saves you, and displays it when you open the browser.

Advantage: Modig

Privatliv

• Brave blocks 3rd-party tracking by default.
  • On Chrome, mega-advertisers like Google and Facebook track you with 3rd-party cookies on nearly every website.
  • By blocking 3rd-party cookies, Brave limits the amount of data Facebook, Google, and other ad networks can collect about your browsing habits.
• Brave stores all your browsing data locally on your computer, which means you can delete it at any time.
• Brave supports Tor browsing, making it the first all-purpose browser to do so.

Advantage: Modig

Säkerhet

• Brave automatically encrypts your website connection when possible (on Chrome, this only occurs with an extension like HTTPS Everywhere).
• Brave now supports all Chrome extensions, including popular password managers like LastPass and 1Password.

Advantage: Modig

Nackdelarna med Brave

• Every once in a while, Brave blocks part of a website that you wanted to load.
• When this happens, it's easiest to click the lion icon, and toggle the shield to down.

• Since the latest Brave update, this is rarely necessary (maybe once per week).

Rekommendation

• Brave's speed alone is enough to make the switch worthwhile, and the added privacy and security benefits are icing on the cake.
• Not surprisingly, Brave has skyrocketed to popularity, going from 1 million to 10.4 million users in the past 2 years alone.

• Brave is almost exactly like Chrome, but faster and less sleazy.
• Download Brave here

Sam Feldman

"En bra banderoll har ingen fast form och har ingen inneboende betydelse."

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