OT - ad-free browsers - Brave?

[St Bruno]

In one of the recent threads, mention was made of an ad-free browser. I can't find it now.
Can any kind soul please tell me its name?
I'm sick to death of all the ads on my email and browsings!

Was it called Brave?

[Trevs Big Tackle]

I use Brave on desktop as a Chrome replacement. Pretty decent. I don't really use it for ad blocking so I can't say if it works well for that but it does block lots of unwanted scripts, many of which are probably advertising. It shows you how many scripts etc it's blocking on a page and it's very easy to turn the blocking off on a particular website if it's stopping a necessary script from running.

[Bloke in North Dorset]

I use Brave on desktop and iKit and yes it does block ads.

[St Bruno]

Thanks BiND and TT. Much appreciated.

[BG]

If Brave becomes more popular then Ghostery might (if they haven't already) tweak their software.. that tracks and blocks tracking bots..

uBlock looks like it works with Brave..

Combined, Ghostery and uBlock on Firefox work perfectly. I'm not sure how well they  work on phones (iOS or Android), or the Mac OS.. iPads etc.

I'm still old school.. a xeon processor box running win 7 on a RAID

[Bloke in North Dorset]

I have no connection to Brave and regularly use different browsers, not least because I wrote the content management system and front end for my wife's art website and have to test it against all the major ones every time I make a change.

Brave offers easily switchable:

3 levels of tracker and add blocker (Off, standard and aggressive)

Connections upgrade to HTTPS

Script blocking (good for some content management systems and weak paywalls)

Cross site cookies and cookie blocking

3 levels of fingerprint blocking

All the major ones offer this, some as extensions or plug-ins

As well as the other usual features.

Their finance model is Brave Rewards, which is a bit annoying but they have to make a living.