Brave developers "show" how Google's work on Chromium can be improved to optimize navigation

Privacy is something that worries us more and more when browsing. When we receive news about the risks that threaten us when we surf the web browsers are often the weakest link in the chain and at the same time a fragility that we can solutions.

We have seen how the different companies that have browsers (Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera…) are increasingly monitoring what their products offer a minimum of security.For customers and for increasingly fierce competition with different alternatives. This is the case of Brave, an excellent cross-platform browser that is back on the front page.

Manifest V3 Vs Rust 69

Available on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux... Brave is a browser that I tried after a friend's recommendation and I must say that the experience has pleasantly surprised me. However, what has caught my attention is how, in the latest beta, the developers of Brave, have put Google on the ropes

Brave, like Chrome, Opera or the new Edge, is based on Chromium and therefore should make use of Manifest V3 We talk conditionally, eye. A system that improves browsing by blocking an API called webRequest and that has as a consequence that most third-party ad blockers are disabled.

This is how Manifest V3 works. This benefits Google, which is who dominates which ads are visible and which are not And what the developers of Brave have achieved is to apply what is good about it Manifest V3 but without the damages it causes to third-party limiters. And do it with a different development: Rust 69

In order to build their own proposal what they have done is create their own ad blocker with the aim of making it more efficient using and in the process they have used the Rust language 69 from Mozilla instead of C++.

In fact, the developers claim that they have improved load times and reduced request sorting times by up to 5.6 microseconds. Those who want to test how Brave's solution works in beta form can do so by accessing the company's Dev and Nightly channels.

Source | ZDNet More information | BRave