brave-browser VS hosts-blocklists

At this time I do not posses information about if Brave will support Ubuntu touch or Postmarket, I can only suggest you install one of the APK's available on our repository, if you would like to use the mobile version of Brave.

I keep seeing posts and github entries about the ARM64 support. but when i go to https://brave.com/linux/ it's not clear which of these releases are ARM64 supported. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11836 Can someone from the dev community edit the page in a way that we can recognize which is which? Would the ARM64 release work on Postmarket OS? Ubuntu Touch? We want brave on the pinephone.

Brave isn't just based off of open source though. It is open source. Here's the entire source code - https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

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Brave Github repository

That's literally untrue. Micrsoft had made >1600 commits as of 2020. They are actively involved in Chromium development. Additionally, they don't have to "own" it. It's completely possible to support a fork just like Brave will be doing. I'm not going to assume your occupation/areas of interest, but I do work in software and this is just how Open Source Software works.

which will be in 2024 for full rollout, and also major forks will hardcode adblockers, not using the manifest API to get around it. also Brave will allegedly always support v2

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15645 https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/13880

I know there are several hosts files out there with lists of domains to block (such as https://github.com/anudeepND/blacklist or https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists), but I'm looking for something different.

Websites that use CNAME to forward their main domain to some tracking company, basically give their entire domain away, I don't see how that is a good secure way to track your users..

DNSCrypt-proxy (and even pihole these days I believe) are actually capable of blocking forwarded CNAME requests. Setting up such system for network wide adblocking is not complicated at all, see: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/wiki/Install-...

Or remove ads for all your devices on your network: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

Use this for network wide blocking of all sorts of virtual garbage. Not only for safari, but all your locally connected devices.

You can get even better coverage with the NoTracking lists (dnsmasq/unbound or dnscrypt-proxy) https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

They focus not only on tracking but also malware prevention, where possible via dns filtering.

Pi-Hole still does not properly support wildcard filtering, only via regex but that is not really efficient (requires tons of resources).

Best for security (malware/phishing) protection and overall ad blocking is the NoTracking list: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists This list is curated very actively and will cover most other lists.