Comparison of Brave Browser and Chrome - Chrome displays Ads at Page top
Have you ever reached for a light switch across a deep dark chaotic room? Here's how it might play out.
You step into the room trying to catch the sight of something, but not even the shape of your own hands is visible. You continue to walk in with nothing but your instincts which tells you that the light switch is just around the corner across the room.
Ironically, you watch your every step, taking close careful strides, walking in very slow, almost at the pace of a snail. "Horror movies aren't real", you say to yourself, so no need to be scared of the dark; but just when you're about taking the next step you are shocked by a ghost-like figure you see, you lose your stealth, step on something which cracks, slip and then fall. You're lucky enough to be cushioned by a pile of clothes laying around, in the direction you fall.
"Who's there?!", you call out but no one answers. As you pick yourself up, you contemplate running out of the room and getting to that light switch - the "running out of the room" idea looks tempting. Your thoughts are stopped dead as you hit your head against something which you grope over to find out it's the wooden chair in the bedroom and you wonder how it got there.
The frustration and excruciating pain together with curiosity about what you cracked convinces you to storm through the room. You do just that, storming through the room like a wind, pushing through all obstacles in front of you and stepping on even more items, cracking some of them and breaking some.
You get across the room, grope for the light switch, turn around to see the messy room you just stormed through; all you've destroyed and all that nearly destroyed you.
Browsing the internet have so much in common with walking through a dark messy room more than we know. Often times we get destroyed or have destroyed so much before we see that we are in.
A loaded page displayed on our screen can be likened to turning on the light switch to see the contents of a room. Information is already exchanged between our device and network of computers called the internet without our knowledge like walking through the dark room.
Intrusive and annoying Ads have snuffed out any serenity left on the internet. To the left, right, top and bottom of a webpage we are plagued with Ads uncalled for. What's even more frustrating, is when the ads are placed over navigation buttons or the entire contents of the the page.
While the internet is changing, we cannot say the same for the tools we use to browse through it - Our web browsers; They are still made like they are used to - little or no tools to combat and clean up the nuisance in the internet.
This publication is geared towards enlightening the reader of some of the challenges of the internet today, of a fairly new browser which have been designed to surmount these current dilemma the internet puts us and provide 5 CONVINCING REASONS why you should SwitchToBrave.
The Internet has Cancer!
There are two primary interconnected problems of the internet which are subliminal but are most pressing and are growing at an alarming rate. They are Unethical Internet Tracking and Internet Advertising.
Internet Tracking involves collection of your information as you interact with a web page by publishers of the page via any of the following methods; fingerprinting, beacons and cookies. The information collected can range from just analytics on the web page down to personal information including geographic location, IP address etcetera. The knowledge of this makes us see that the creepy speculation of "we are being watched" might not be far from the truth. It is disheartening and interesting at the same time, to find out that Google is a top internet tracker. We can only hope they do it ethically.
The second problem - Unethical Internet Advertising - births from this. A wise man once said (paraphrased); "You're the product, if the services are free." Oh how I wish I saw the wisdom in his words when I first heard them, I wouldn't have jumped unto every free platform I saw online and would have become cautious where I leave my data.
But what about data which I don't give but they collect anyways?
Internet Tracking allows advertising companies to get to you and I. To place ads just where they should be so we see them. Via advertising utilizing the data already collected with or without user's permission, advertising companies influence the purchasing behavior of end users.
Do you see now how we are the product? Our data are collected by publishers are sold to advertising companies without our consent, so these ad companies can land targeted ads on users and control users.
No more should users "hope" that their information are collected and used ethically for their convenience, No more should users be products, No more should users be at the mercy of publishers and advertising companies. Users can now stay private, end the Adpocalypto and make their own choice. Users can now be Brave. Users can now use The Brave Browser.
The Brave Browser is an actually safer and truly faster open sourced web browser for those who wish to enjoy private, secure and fast browsing.
5 Convincing Reasons Why You Should SwitchToBrave
1. Switch To Spend Less
Blindly storming through the dark room led to the destruction of some items which obviously would cost you to replace if they are important, In the same way loading web pages with all sorts of irrelevant and unwanted Ads loaded along side will cost you more data.
For countries with no free WiFi's and the cost of getting an internet subscription is high, this can really be a pain in the ass, deterring users from visiting their favourite websites or even using the internet at all. Statistics show that;
An average mobile browser user pays as much as $23 a month in data charges for downloading Ads and trackers - that's $276 a year.
This is what brave browser does, in the chaotic room analogy, it clears up the room so you can walk straight through the room to the light switch with little or no bumps or destroying valuables by stepping on them.
Even without any further settings or configuration, The Brave Browser defaults to settings that blocks all these including phishing, malware and malvertising. Extensions and plug-ins can also be added to top-up security.
2. Switch To Privacy
Just like in the dark room where you think you see an apparition and feel like you're being watched, by someone or something, people feel that way with the internet. I have this friend who tapes her web cam with a black tape because she thinks she is being spied on.
This is not an entirely crazy idea considering what we know that trackers can do and what we don't know. The uncertainty of our privacy in the internet as it is, causes us to sleep with an eye open. For all we know, someone might be listening to us through our microphones, watching us through our web or selfie cams or copying sensitive data from our devices.
The Brave browser ensures privacy by shielding its users from all methods of unwanted ethical or unethical internet tracking by preventing fingerprinting, cookie control, script blocking, and even upgrading automatically to HTTPS whenever possible for a more secure web interaction when an ordinary browser would not.
3. Switch To Speed
An intriguing browsing experience is derived from a fast internet connection and a fast browser. Just as I found it interesting, you might too that different browsers do not handle the same web page in the same manner. The manner in which they handle it depends entirely on how they are built or coded.
A fast internet connection on a slow browser doesn't go down too well, it's like climbing up a downward motion escalator, dumb and difficult.
Speed tests have proven the Brave Browser to be faster than the most commonly used browsers we know such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Up to 8x faster. So in order not to experience difficulty and look dumb as well, speaking as one who is in your best interest, you should Switch to Brave for Speed.
4. Switch To Simplicity and Compatibility
Users of other browsers other than the Brave browser do all the dirty work themselves; they research, download and install several browser extensions to get the same security and privacy which the Brave Browser provides in-built and defaults to. It greatly simplifies attaining maximum security and privacy as you browse the web.
However, if still you would like to get additional features via plugins and extensions, Brave provides support for this and is compatible with almost all the extensions and plugins of Chrome.
5. Switch To Safety and Convenience
Our desires and wants can easily be manipulated to get us to fall into small habits which could metamorphose to a gigantic one.
In the structure of Habits formation, the cue or the trigger is the first step, where one is triggered to take some sort of action by the internal or "external" environment. This means that Ads could actually be a trigger which initiates a habit in us. A child for instance may become a chronic pornography viewer just from a simple trigger of an Ads. Same could produce serial gambler.
It's no Joke when it is say that browsers which track internet users and sell our data to advertising companies give power to these companies to influence customer purchasing behavior. This is unfair to say at least; the consent of the user is not sought, neither is he/she compensated for it.
Stumbling, falling and hitting your head against a chair in the dark room, manifests on this virtual level as developing a habit accidentally because of a trigger placed on a favorite web page.
Thankfully Brave Browsers shields us from these triggers as much as it can. All our data stored in the browser, stays in the browser, none goes to their server.
BONUS REASON: There's an opportunity to earn on the Brave browser.
IF YOU CHOOSE to view Ads, Brave rewards you for doing so. You can also tip your favorite websites who are verified authors on brave, if you've been meaning to.
In Conclusion, the world is a terrible place, so too has become our dear internet. Ads and Trackers everywhere, publishers and advertisers all in for their gain at the detriment of end users. Not anymore!
The Brave browser is redefining the way we view and use the web. No more unwanted ads - if you want me to see it, you'd have to reward me for it. No more stealing of our personal data, it's called personal for a reason. We are not Products!
This is more than a browser, it is a movement, a movement of Bravery to bring back serenity to the internet. SwitchToBrave.
