Hello,

Do you want a browser that blocks a lot of advertisements?
You could try Brave:
https://brave.com/
It even blocks most advertisements on youtube.

Bertus

 

It's rather good. Installed on Linux with no problems, and is definitely quicker than Firefox.

 

Your ordinary browser:



Brave Browser

 

@bertus

I just use AdBlock Plus.

But I am curious about Brave.

How do websites that dislike you blocking ADs handle the situation when you visit those sites?

With AdBlock you are given the option to disable it or go f....yourself. Sometimes you get an option to simply visit the site "this time".

 

With AdBlock you are given the option to disable it or go f....yourself.

I usually go f....myself.

 

Yea, me too.

 

@bertus

I just use AdBlock Plus.

But I am curious about Brave.

How do websites that dislike you blocking ADs handle the situation when you visit those sites?

With AdBlock you are given the option to disable it or go f....yourself. Sometimes you get an option to simply visit the site "this time".

Sites don't react, it seems the design of Brave fundamentally hides ads, I only discovered Brave while searching for a way to stop Youtube forcing me to subscribe and pay to avoid ads. They were doing this like a year ago or so, everyone was complaining at the time. Ad blockers were unable to help, somehow Youtube knew you had one and on that basis tried to force you to subscribe or simply not watch.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2107229/why-i-wont-pay-to-avoid-ads-on-youtube.html

I tried Brave and it worked like a dream, Youtube stopped insisting I pay and ads everywhere just stopped appearing.

 

Here's Brave's summary of all this

https://brave.com/learn/youtube-ad-blocker/

 

It is rather annoying that it cannot update itself, and every time it is opened, it tells me to reinstall it.

 

It is rather annoying that it cannot update itself, and every time it is opened, it tells me to reinstall it.

This is kind of suspicious. I would say it is a virus.

My vote for Brave.

 

This is kind of suspicious. I would say it is a virus.

My vote for Brave.

I wonder if it is because I'm using Linux.