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[Tubetec]

Targeted ads are getting more and more invasive by the day ,
I was able to install brave but didnt give it a go yet , might as well give vivaldi a go too as Firefox has been unsatisfactory lately for me .

 

[scott2000]

I tried Brave and it was great with no ads but when I'd run CCleaner after a session, I'd get hundreds to a thousand trackers compared to in the teens with Firefox.... But I didn't really mess with settings and want to revisit it...

 

[cyrano]

Ccleaner is a scam. It's purpose is to get you to spend money on the "pro" version. It works, but I've also seen it ruin Windows installations.

 

[scott2000]

Ccleaner is a scam. It's purpose is to get you to spend money on the "pro" version

Yeah I've never used the pro version...
It still doesn't explain why it shows tons of trackers after using Brave and only a few after using Mozilla unless that's part of the scam. But there must be a setting in Brave that needs to be set... like do not track or something....
I just never looked into it because it was easier to stay with the familiar browser at that time but have been meaning to revisit it..

 

[cyrano]

It's software that basically works from a list. Just like Brave. So it will recognize what's on the list. Brave probably has a much longer list, since it's main feature is blocking ads, trackers etc.

Sometimes Brave lists things as trackers while they're not exactly trackers. It's a bit overzealous. I don't mind that. Besides a simple recognition list, Brave also shields from content loaded from other domains than the one you're visiting. That helps in blocking advanced trackers and possible malicious content. But doing that, the problem is content from protective content networks, like Cloudflare. Cloudflare has many servers all over the world. I'm sure Brave knows about all of them. But new ones are added and dozens of other companies do the same.

Due to the many Brave users that report problems, the list gets updated frequently.

Of course there are heuristic algo's in there too. But I have no idea how these work, exactly. I'm way too lazy to read the code...