0:00 if privacy and security are top priority
0:03 for you the google chrome browser is one
0:05 you should avoid as an alternative the
0:07 brave browser is one to consider for
0:09 your daily use it actually respects your
0:11 privacy with additional features built
0:13 in continuing our series of browsers we
0:15 think are better than chrome i'll show
0:16 you 8 reasons why it just might be time
0:18 for you to quit using chrome and
0:19 consider using brave instead let's get
0:22 started
0:23 [Music]
0:29 one of the primary reasons many people
0:31 have switched from chrome to brave is
0:33 because it's focused on privacy
0:35 there's no telemetry or spyware
0:37 reporting back to brave like there is
0:39 with chrome
0:40 when syncing history bookmarks and other
0:42 data with another device instead of it
0:44 being stored in the cloud stored on the
0:46 device itself
0:48 and its privacy practices and policies
0:50 meet or exceed regulations imposed by
0:52 governments keeping you safer online
0:56 on chrome if you want to block privacy
0:58 invasive trackers that follow you across
1:00 the web and the advertisements on web
1:02 pages you will need to download an
1:03 extension
1:04 on brave the ability to block most
1:06 trackers and ads is built in
1:09 for example on this website using chrome
1:11 without a blocker extension installed
1:13 this is what the web page looks like
1:15 in contrast using brave using their
1:18 default built-in blocking capability you
1:20 can see that the page has a cleaner look
1:21 with less distractions
1:23 if you want to see how many trackers and
1:25 ads are being blocked on the current
1:26 page click the shield icon on the right
1:28 side of the address bar and you'll see
1:30 it's blocking six
1:32 for additional settings click the menu
1:34 icon in the upper right and select
1:36 settings
1:39 in the left pane click on shields
1:42 in the drop down for trackers and adds
1:44 blocking you have three choices you can
1:46 disable blocking altogether standard is
1:49 a good balance to ensure all web pages
1:51 load properly and aggressive will block
1:53 more trackers and ads but will cause
1:55 some websites not to load properly
1:58 while we're here it's a good idea to
1:59 enable upgrade connections to https to
2:02 improve your security for those sites
2:04 that are not encrypted
2:05 i keep block fingerprinting on standard
2:07 to ensure most sites don't break while
2:09 limiting the data collected
2:11 and for block cookies many people think
2:13 all cookies are bad they're not
2:15 initially they were created as a way for
2:17 your website preferences to be saved on
2:19 an individual site but like anything
2:21 else they were abused the only cookies
2:23 that concern us are those that follow us
2:25 from side to side so we have this set to
2:27 block cross-site cookies only
2:30 because brave blocks a lot of trackers
2:32 ads and other stuff from loading it is
2:34 undeniably faster than chrome and for
2:36 those of you with low spec computers
2:38 you'll be happy to know it's lighter on
2:40 resources as well
2:41 with a total of eight tabs open on the
2:43 exact same sites on both chrome and
2:45 brave you'll see that chrome is using
2:47 more than three times the amount of cpu
2:49 as brave and a third more memory if
2:52 speed and resource management are
2:53 important to you brave is the obvious
2:55 winner
2:57 for more than 20 years google search has
2:59 been the dominant search engine
3:01 as time goes by it continues to get
3:03 worse each and every day with
3:05 ever-increasing ads and biased results
3:08 thankfully brave has come along and
3:10 created their own search engine
3:12 yes there is duckduckgo but as many of
3:14 you know it's not independent it uses
3:16 microsoft's bing for its search results
3:19 to do a search while using the brave web
3:20 browser just like most other browsers
3:22 type your query into the address bar
3:27 when you're done with that hit enter on
3:28 your keyboard
3:30 you'll see that everything is laid out
3:32 nicely
3:33 using brave search there is no data
3:34 tracking profiling and best of all the
3:37 search engine does not get involved in
3:39 censorship
3:41 while chrome and brave are based on the
3:43 open source chromium source code that is
3:45 where the similarities end
3:47 google adds on proprietary code making
3:49 it difficult for independent security
3:51 analysts to find out what is going on in
3:53 the background
3:54 brave on the other hand is fully free
3:56 and open source and believes in being
3:57 transparent
3:59 the source code which they've made
4:00 available on github can be inspected
4:02 modified and distributed by anyone
4:06 brave just like any other chromium-based
4:08 browser lets you download extensions
4:10 from the chrome web store
4:12 to make sure google is not getting your
4:13 data when you download or update an
4:15 extension brave proxies your request
4:17 through a server so google does not know
4:18 who requested it keeping your data
4:20 private
4:21 real quickly to install chrome
4:23 extensions in brave click the menu icon
4:26 in the upper right and select extensions
4:30 they've provided a link on this page to
4:32 open the chrome web store
4:34 go find and download those extensions
4:36 that you use just like you would with
4:37 any browser
4:40 like most browsers chrome has a private
4:42 window option they call incognito mode
4:45 using this chrome won't save any of your
4:46 browsing history cookies form data and
4:49 other site data which comes in handy if
4:51 you're sharing a computer with others
4:53 brave goes a step further in addition to
4:55 offering a similar private window option
4:57 they also give you the option to open a
4:59 private window with tor connectivity
5:01 to open it click the menu icon in the
5:03 upper right and select new private
5:06 window with tor
5:09 being connected to tor has a couple of
5:11 useful benefits it'll hide your ip
5:13 address from the websites you visit and
5:15 the sites you visit will be hidden from
5:16 passive network observers like your
5:18 internet service provider
5:20 while this is better than chrome's
5:21 incognito mode it's not a 100 solution
5:24 to keeping you anonymous they do let you
5:26 know on this page if your personal
5:28 safety depends on remaining anonymous to
5:30 use the tor browser instead
5:33 the blocking of ads is controversial
5:35 with web developers and those who create
5:37 and publish content it's understandable
5:39 without ads they make less money to keep
5:41 a roof over their head feed their family
5:43 and pay their bills in response to this
5:45 brave has a program that rewards both
5:47 publishers and users of their platform
5:50 if you choose to watch ads that appear
5:52 as small push notifications you earn
5:54 cryptocurrency which they call a basic
5:56 attention token
5:58 these tokens get stored in your crypto
5:59 wallet to tip websites content creators
6:02 or keep for yourself
6:03 as most of you know we're not crypto
6:05 bros and find cryptocurrency to be
6:07 highly speculative but at least with
6:09 brave rewards there's no risk you don't
6:11 have to invest to be rewarded
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