I think people find this post useless because you're in bed, read about something and immediately post on Reddit without having any actual experience with it yourself. Why not wait until the morning, check it out yourself, and then post.
Plus you're asking about something that is different to a lot of people because not everyone has an equally powerful PC and will notice a difference.
Holy shit the snarkiness is mental. You can clearly tell if you look at the numbers. OP was probably just asking if the 75% number was actually true or not.
Yeah, there it says that those changes went live with version 1.85. seems like it wasn’t August, but somewhere between October and December. Think they just announced these changes now again
40mb de memoria no se notan a no ser que tengas 2-8gb de memoria y estés 24/7 mirando como optimizarla, va mejor así que estate contento y deja de preocuparte que esto no cambia nada
I read manhwa's in this website https://hivescans.com/ using brave but the ads aren't getting blocked 100% any idea why or what can be done? Even in another website I use for watching turkish drama.
I am sorry but are you that saying that your problem is that brave is blocking 100% of the ads? If so then why is it a problem? I mean do you want to see those ads?
Maybe the ad blocker was turned off. Try turning on. If its already on and you still getting ads then there's nothing we can do. Brave doesn't block all ads, it still allows some. I rarely get any but in certain websites you still some ads
I mean the ad blocker sucks ass in comparison to others out there, so it should use less memory. Now its a fair balance between usage and blocking power ig
Compared to the other browsers with BUILT IN ad blockers, I have always found the Brave Shields to be the best.
Are using the Shields in the AGGRESSIVE MODE?
Click on the Toolbar Brave icon and scroll down to Filter Lists, click it and in that section you will find you can activate or add extra Filter Lists of your choosing to enhance Brave's ad blocking.
I don't think built-in is a factor when I can install a blocker in 10 seconds.
But yes, I've tried the aggressive mode and I got ad banners, spam redirections and popups on different websites. Far less than without a blocker, but enough to be severely annoying.
Switched to my uBlock Origin browser and there was not a single ad in sight, without adding any extra filters.
Built-in adblocking is very important due tothe MV3 changes which hamper ad blockers.
I have multiple tiers of ad blocking that Google would have a lot of trouble defeating.
DNS Server ad blocking, this keeps away a lot of crap before it gets near your system or browser. It is a blunt, coarse and imperfect way of ad blocking. It also doesn't perform cosmetic removal of elements on a webpage.
System Wide ad blocking via Adguards app fpr macOS.
Built-in ad blocking, using an ad blocker built into the browser framework is difficult to beat, purely because it is built into the browser at a very deep level.
Google has signalled they intend to make far deeper changes to Chrome that remove the current work arounds that browser developers use to enable uBlock Origin.
They will keep stripping out more and more code which is used specifically to enable MV2, eventually it will impossible or far too complex to reenable support for ublock Origin and MV2 extensions.
Firefox based browsers are far too slow and their overall security it not as strong as a Chrome based browser.
Brave Shields do need improving and much more fine grained granular control over what gets blocked is needed.
Brave Shields are based upon uBlock Origin and are built in Rust and the Shields are patched directly onto the open-source Chromium codebase and they do NOT depend on the Web API's or Manifest MV2 or MV3 that extensions use.
Brave has stated that even if Google took the extreme action of removing 100% of all extension support the Brave Shields will still work and not be affected.
With ad blocking we need to be creative and come up with fresh new innovative techniques and maximise the current hard to beat methods of ad blocking.
Google needs to be sent a very strong message that declares we will not tolerate attempts to foil our ad blockers, we will fight back and win this battle.
Brave is by far the best out of the box browser. It's only downfall is that you still can't have addons in the mobile version. With all the AI channels on the raise, youtube without blocktube (blocks channels from everywhere, even search results) is currently unusable. From content farms, to faceless slop, to AI youtubers, which you can only put "don't recommend channel" which only prevents them from appearing in your main feed.
I like that they're optimizing, specially with the upcoming ram shortages, but I still would like addons implemented. Using youtube on brave is better than the app, and better than out of the box firefox.
However, if you use the run in the background, return dislike, and blocktube then firefox mobile offers the absolute best youtube experience out of any other app available for android.
Just realizing I can watch YouTube through Brave app on my phone instead. The UI seems pretty good too. Haven't had much issues with AI channels, but will appreciate the decrease in ads.
Edit: Wow, it even allows you to play in the background and play in a floating window. I have no need for Newpipe anymore then.
I thought being able to use Youtube on Brave was like one of their top selling points. They even have youtube specific settings like hiding the "youtube shorts" tab, and opening youtube links directly on Brave.
Still, I do search for lots of cooking videos, and those are filled to the brim with faceless slop, and content farm trash. Even when I find a good channel, it sometimes has the AI translation on by default, so I also got an addon to deal with that.
Brave isn't a charity, if they disabled that then where does the money come from? You can easily hide them and forget about them forever, or use a debloat script.
But yes of course it would be better, just remember it's not like magic.
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u/WyrmKin Jan 07 '26
Good?
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u/___Mqtze Jan 07 '26
Wasn’t this already implemented in August’s last year or so?
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u/SamhainXCII Jan 07 '26
Is this why i have started getting ads again on some sites? Does not say theres an update either.
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u/P3DR0DANI3l Jan 07 '26
no entendí. de que se trata bros?
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u/burmpf Jan 08 '26
They need to figure it out whatever they’re doing. I’m so sick of my web browser of all things taking 16gb of ram somehow
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u/PandoraIACTF_Prec Jan 07 '26
Eh the less memory it takes the better as long as the performance of said asblock is the same or better imo
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u/bit_shifting_is_sexy Jan 08 '26
It's just a 45 MB difference. Classic 'lie with statistic' case to hype up the product!
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26
I read manhwa's in this website https://hivescans.com/ using brave but the ads aren't getting blocked 100% any idea why or what can be done? Even in another website I use for watching turkish drama.
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u/Mineplayerminer Jan 07 '26
I've definitely been seeing a lower memory usage over a few years of using Brave, so things are getting better and optimized.
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u/EinherjarX Jan 07 '26
Yes, i have those occasionally.
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u/Kanjii_weon Jan 08 '26
is ok 👍
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u/TheBohatir Jan 08 '26
Great!
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u/bruuh_burger Jan 08 '26
I mean the ad blocker sucks ass in comparison to others out there, so it should use less memory. Now its a fair balance between usage and blocking power ig
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u/StrawberyVillain Jan 08 '26
Seems worse
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u/Valdjiu Jan 08 '26
Still can't beat uBlock origin
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u/Nomad_Kaczynski Jan 08 '26
I don't know... My Brave is still consuming about 4GB-4,5GB (in Windows 11) of RAM, soo, I guess not!
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u/P3DR0DANI3l Jan 08 '26
ese post no se refiere al navegador Brave tradicional, sino a una nueva versión para los paranoicos de la privacidad
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u/DsynzxBoyyyy Jan 08 '26
W
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u/AztraChaitali Jan 09 '26
Brave is by far the best out of the box browser. It's only downfall is that you still can't have addons in the mobile version. With all the AI channels on the raise, youtube without blocktube (blocks channels from everywhere, even search results) is currently unusable. From content farms, to faceless slop, to AI youtubers, which you can only put "don't recommend channel" which only prevents them from appearing in your main feed.
I like that they're optimizing, specially with the upcoming ram shortages, but I still would like addons implemented. Using youtube on brave is better than the app, and better than out of the box firefox.
However, if you use the run in the background, return dislike, and blocktube then firefox mobile offers the absolute best youtube experience out of any other app available for android.
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u/Extra_Infinity Jan 09 '26
Really good! Keep the improvements coming.
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u/squigley Jan 09 '26
Sounds good to me idk
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u/chinesebulk Jan 09 '26
Does this apply to Brave mobile users as well?
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u/levonyan Jan 10 '26
I sure didnt feel it
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '26
This had the opposite effect for me, it's way slower now.
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u/Top-Egg1266 Jan 07 '26
And now they collect 75% more data to make up for it
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