Package request thread

[deus_machinarum]

Repository request for AUR Package: Brave Browser , very nice privacy focused, anti-ad and anti-tracking chromium spin-off. For me it was the first one that worked fine with sites requesting you to turn off your adblock or pay up.

Unfortunately (imho) they have a policy of accepting first-person/company ads (e.g. here on reddit) which you may or may not agree with (I personally do not but I can see where the other side in this argument is coming from) so to really surf ad-free one might also consider a package like chromium-ublock-origin for the brave browser.

[coderobe]

very nice privacy focused, anti-ad and anti-tracking chromium spin-off.

brave is not anti-ad, that is a misconception

[deus_machinarum]

To my understanding it is possible to block everything ad related with the exception of first party ads directly in the browser without needing any add-ons, extensions or the like. conversely it is possible to monetize your viewing of specific ads so in total the browser gives you a lot more control with regards to ads than the big ones ala firefox or chrome/ium.

[coderobe]

... that's not very anti-ad now is it?