Brave and Epic Privacy as alternative browsers for Trisquel 8
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Hello,
as alternative browser for Trisquel 8 I suggest www.brave.com and www.epicbrwoser.com.
If, for any reason, the preloaded Trisquel 8 Abrowser doesn't work, I use an alternative browser to surf the Internet.
Do you know or have you already used these privacy-oriented browsers?
What is your opinion about the Brave and Epic Privacy browsers for Trisquel 8?
Thank you and... Happy New Year!
This is proprietary software, so it will never be included in Trisquel.
I'm also skeptical of claims that it is privacy-respecting. Without the
freedom to study the software, we only have the company's word that the
browser is not malware, and the privacy features advertised, (private
browsing by default, removal of Google tracking from Chromium, proxied
search) all seem to be things that you can have in a free browser, so
there is no reason to give up your freedom to get these things.
This is apparently free software judging by the license (though it might
have other freedom issues like DRM), so in that way it is better than
Epic Browser. However, the Basic Attention Token integration is not
something I expect everyone to want in their browser, and I don't see
how it is particularly privacy focused. It does block third-party ads
that might track the user, but you can install an adblocker in Abrowser
to do the same thing, and Abrowser won't replace these ads with local
ones.
> If, for any reason, the preloaded Trisquel 8 Abrowser doesn't work, I use
> an alternative browser to surf the Internet.
I find that whenever a site doesn't work in Abrowser, it's usually
because either (a) Abrowser's privacy settings block something that the
page is trying to do, or (b) the site requires support for DRM. If such
a site works in another browser, that might not necessarily be a good
thing. Can you give some examples of sites that don't work in Abrowser?
Brave probably needs a bit of work. Its default plugins are questionable...
Well, I have had rare occasions when using Abrowser a page would not open, but Tor Browser did. SO I think it's not related to DRM or non-free stuff, but maybe some kind of rare JS code that Abrowser doesn't understand (it never seemed to block JS just failed to load the page after several minutes of trying). Tor Browser just blocks all JS by default and so opened the sites with no problem. However, apart from Tor Browser (90% of the time) I only use Abrowser just fine and don't recommend any other browsers. Oh and IceCat too! I use that sometimes and really enjoy it, but not for general use.
Yeah, I am a Firefox kinda guy, with Tor Browser, Abrowser and Icecat all being basically based on it :P
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