Is this a legit website or a virus download?

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
and a new Extension I found last week....... Disable Autoplay. It stops the auto-runs of videos at many major newspapers and Pro Sports websites I visit.

Are you using Chrome? FF has a setting for this in Preferences. No need to install an extension.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted by uc50ic4more
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
both have ABP installed

Why ABP over uBlock Origin?


Been using it for a long, long time and have probably just become complacent

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
ABP is slower web-surfing, versus that of the noticeably faster UBlock Origin, which I run. I also run Privacy Badger and a new Extension I found last week....... Disable Autoplay. It stops the auto-runs of videos at many major newspapers and Pro Sports websites I visit.


I don't notice a speed impact regardless of what I run. Brave, naked, isn't any faster than FF or Chrome with our without ABP. This system is pretty quick for being 10 years old (with a few upgrades along the way) and the network setup is pretty decent as well.

 

[Hall]

Originally Posted by uc50ic4more
What I like, though, about some of these non-Chrome browsers is that their *mobile* versions feature their built-in ad-blockers (and/ or browser extensions); Chrome does not.

Now that will make me look into an alternative to Chrome on my iPhone (I just don't like Safari).

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted by hallstevenson
Originally Posted by uc50ic4more
What I like, though, about some of these non-Chrome browsers is that their *mobile* versions feature their built-in ad-blockers (and/ or browser extensions); Chrome does not.

Now that will make me look into an alternative to Chrome on my iPhone (I just don't like Safari).


https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brave-private-web-browser/id1052879175

I don't know enough about Apple's walled garden ecosystem to know if Brave can import all of your Chrome data right on the phone; but it's pretty trivial on a desktop or laptop and Android.

Firefox also has an iOS version.

In any case, I believe all they're doing is providing a "skin" for Safari's rendering engine; but it's better than nothing.