Happy Mole Day! I'm still the sort of nerd to mention this as part of my 23 October blog post almost every year. It's still on my Google Calendar, even. Go figure.
My first 24 hours with the Brave Browser have been pretty decent. It really does feel a lot like Chrome, and my limited extensions all work, so I'm fine there. I haven't had any issues with my work-related apps thus far, but I probably need to keep testing before I feel super sure. The desktop experience is fine, but the mobile experience is taking a bit longer to get used to. I guess the ad blocking is causing it to render certain pages in a slightly different way. I haven't had a site that doesn't work entirely - it's just that you can tell that something is different, and you can't immediately put your finger on what it is.
The only issue, thus far, is that I can't upload photos to this blog without disabling Brave's "shield" for the site. I've reported it to the Brave team, but I don't expect anything to change any time soon. It looks like Blogger's photos are handled by Google Photos on the backend, hence the need to hand off between the sites on the backend.
I inadvertently ended up testing Brave Search on my phone today since the default setting for the browser favored their own search service. The search engine doesn't seem to recognize that I'm in the Philippines, so there's no localization for the results at all. So it looks like I'm sticking with Google for search for now.
The other thing I tried to explore was getting away from Google News. It's my default news aggregator service and how I choose to get caught up on the headlines, with the option to read multiple articles about the same subject to have a good basis for comparison. Today I tried Feedly, Ground News, and finally Flipboard, but none of them quite fit my needs. Flipboard is the closest, but creating an all-in-one feed seems to drown out most local news. So either I live with i,t or I create multiple magazine boards to gather news more efficiently. But the platform still has a tendency to show content unrelated to my declared interests, and I'm not sure what's driving that. The other services aren't the best when it comes to surfacing relevant content, as far as my testing is concerned.
At the very least, I've gone over all of my Google privacy-related settings to be a lot more discerning about what permissions I'm granting. Continuous incremental improvements, I guess.
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