At the start of the year, Brave announced that they're looking to make Brave Origin available. It'll be Brave, except with all the crapware features removed. Brave Origin now have launched in the...
At the start of the year, Brave announced that they're looking to make Brave Origin available. It'll be Brave, except with all the crapware features removed.
Brave Origin now have launched in the nightly version, with the release version scheduled to launch in early June. It has one-time purchase price of $60, with 10 activation limit that they have said you can contact support to reset. (The activation system is not tied to an account, so they need to limit it to prevent abuse)
Alternatively, Linux users can activate Brave Origin for free and users can use group policies to disable features in the same way Origin did it.
Origin will have two variants:
Standalone: Separate installer. Bloatware features are permanently compiled out (not available on mobile)
Upgrade: Activate the Origin key in your existing Brave to get a page that you can selectively disable bloatware, with all features disabled by default and future features will be opt-in. (available on all platforms)
The features disabled by Origin currently are: Telemetry, Leo, News, Playlist (iOS), Rewards, Speedreader, Talk, Tor, VPN, Wallet, Wayback Machine, Web Discovery Project. Some of those features can already be disabled in the interface, but the menu option will remains. Origin should entirely remove the menu.
I think at some point I've saw on the checkout page that Brave Search Premium is also included, as the browser will block the ads. However, it is not on the page now and current Brave policy is that the default blocking level do not block first party content so sponsored ads in Brave Search still remains.
Upgrade: Activate the Origin key in your existing Brave to get a page that you can selectively disable bloatware, with all features disabled by default and future features will be opt-in. (available on all platforms)
I`m just thinking out. Brave and Vivaldi both chromium based. In both browsers crapware is disabled at maximum. Vivaldi is free, but not strictly opensource, its source-available. I`m pretty sure...
I`m just thinking out.
Brave and Vivaldi both chromium based.
In both browsers crapware is disabled at maximum.
Vivaldi is free, but not strictly opensource, its source-available.
I`m pretty sure that Vivaldi is much more customizable than Brave.
Anyway, I`m pretty happy that now we have new alternative, and I really-really love one-time purchase financial model.
I wonder why Linux get to use it for free... Maybe they hope that way they'll get more feedback and bug reports? Anyway, the removal of Wayback Machine and Tor make it a lesser product for me, the...
I wonder why Linux get to use it for free... Maybe they hope that way they'll get more feedback and bug reports?
Anyway, the removal of Wayback Machine and Tor make it a lesser product for me, the rest don't bother me since I just keep them turned off.
But if there is a target audience for this version, I'm happy for them
At the start of the year, Brave announced that they're looking to make Brave Origin available. It'll be Brave, except with all the crapware features removed.
Brave Origin now have launched in the nightly version, with the release version scheduled to launch in early June. It has one-time purchase price of $60, with 10 activation limit that they have said you can contact support to reset. (The activation system is not tied to an account, so they need to limit it to prevent abuse)
Alternatively, Linux users can activate Brave Origin for free and users can use group policies to disable features in the same way Origin did it.
Origin will have two variants:
The features disabled by Origin currently are: Telemetry, Leo, News, Playlist (iOS), Rewards, Speedreader, Talk, Tor, VPN, Wallet, Wayback Machine, Web Discovery Project. Some of those features can already be disabled in the interface, but the menu option will remains. Origin should entirely remove the menu.
I think at some point I've saw on the checkout page that Brave Search Premium is also included, as the browser will block the ads. However, it is not on the page now and current Brave policy is that the default blocking level do not block first party content so sponsored ads in Brave Search still remains.
Some one will figure out how to do this for free.
I`m just thinking out.
Brave and Vivaldi both chromium based.
In both browsers crapware is disabled at maximum.
Vivaldi is free, but not strictly opensource, its source-available.
I`m pretty sure that Vivaldi is much more customizable than Brave.
Anyway, I`m pretty happy that now we have new alternative, and I really-really love one-time purchase financial model.
I wonder why Linux get to use it for free... Maybe they hope that way they'll get more feedback and bug reports?
Anyway, the removal of Wayback Machine and Tor make it a lesser product for me, the rest don't bother me since I just keep them turned off.
But if there is a target audience for this version, I'm happy for them
Interesting, certainly makes it easier to distribute on Linux