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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1868114" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>A bit of water under the bridge since this thread started and during that time i have been determined to give Brave a fair run both on macOS and iOS/iPadOS. Don't get me wrong I still think that for a mainstream browser it's built in privacy features are very good it even offers a built in TOR search engine for private browsing but lately I have noticed an alarming increase in the number of pop up Crypto currency ads which appear as an overlay at the top of iOS and iPad pages. I support the novel concept at the heart of Brave's Basic Attention Token (BAT) aimed at improving web advertising content by rewarding your favourite sites for their responsible non invasive ads. This was all well and good in the beginning but crypto currency is quite clearly increasing again in both popularity and value not least of which is Braves own CC the BAT. The result is regular pop ups which have to be physically dismissed with a finger swipe to see the top of the window. </p><p>This little annoyance drove me to investigate an old "friend" namely Ghostery. I used Ghostery as an anti tracking extension to Opera, Chrome and Firefox back in the days when they weren't built in as some are today, initially in tandem with AdBlock.</p><p>So today I downloaded Ghostery browser and gave it a run on my iPad.</p><p>It is refreshingly simple. It renders this site very well. It's easy to use settings take only a few seconds to set up. It's UI needs no explanation to navigate. It can be set as your default browser and most of all it does, as it always did, a great job of removing the trackers of your choice. As it says in their own promotions, "Ghostery uncovers the trackers on each website and empowers you to control the ones you don’t want for a cleaner, faster, and safer browsing experience."</p><p>I'm going to give it a try for a while, just on my iPad, and I would recommend everyone do the same. It won't appeal to everyone, nothing ever does, but you might just be pleasantly surprised.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1868114, member: 204485"] A bit of water under the bridge since this thread started and during that time i have been determined to give Brave a fair run both on macOS and iOS/iPadOS. Don't get me wrong I still think that for a mainstream browser it's built in privacy features are very good it even offers a built in TOR search engine for private browsing but lately I have noticed an alarming increase in the number of pop up Crypto currency ads which appear as an overlay at the top of iOS and iPad pages. I support the novel concept at the heart of Brave's Basic Attention Token (BAT) aimed at improving web advertising content by rewarding your favourite sites for their responsible non invasive ads. This was all well and good in the beginning but crypto currency is quite clearly increasing again in both popularity and value not least of which is Braves own CC the BAT. The result is regular pop ups which have to be physically dismissed with a finger swipe to see the top of the window. This little annoyance drove me to investigate an old "friend" namely Ghostery. I used Ghostery as an anti tracking extension to Opera, Chrome and Firefox back in the days when they weren't built in as some are today, initially in tandem with AdBlock. So today I downloaded Ghostery browser and gave it a run on my iPad. It is refreshingly simple. It renders this site very well. It's easy to use settings take only a few seconds to set up. It's UI needs no explanation to navigate. It can be set as your default browser and most of all it does, as it always did, a great job of removing the trackers of your choice. As it says in their own promotions, "Ghostery uncovers the trackers on each website and empowers you to control the ones you don’t want for a cleaner, faster, and safer browsing experience." I'm going to give it a try for a while, just on my iPad, and I would recommend everyone do the same. It won't appeal to everyone, nothing ever does, but you might just be pleasantly surprised. [/QUOTE]
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