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What are the best data-saving browsers for Android?
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Opera Mini
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Opera Mini
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Very lightweight
Great for phones with lower RAM or performance issues.
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Has issues while playing video
It will crash when you are playing video.
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IndustriousTatenen's Experience
2018 excellent data saver. 2022 excellent data ads eater.
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Completely free
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Many bugs
In extreme data saving mode, it sometimes won't load page correctly.
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CompetentSydyk's Experience
Cant open Facebook free
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Has a data saver
Opera mini's data saver has two modes - regular and extreme. great for people with smaller data plans when not on WiFi. Has also the ability to control the quality of downloaded images and some video optimizations.
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Doesn't support some common modern browsers functionalities
Some web pages might look a bit broken but from personal experience it doesn't happen often enough (or at all) to be a major issue.
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Brave
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Brave is an Ad company
Brave Software is a for-profit company (though users must opt into Brave ads and Brave doesn't track users.)
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Blocks ads
By hiding annoying ads, Brave provides faster and less data consuming browsing experience.
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ThriftyNunbarsegunu's Experience
I trust Brave and like both its speed and ad-blocking feature. The android version is nice, though not as comfy as it can be, e.g. no speed dial, limited bookmark support.
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MPL-2.0
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Chromium core
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Blink
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Power hungry, uses much more battery power than other browsers
Per default Brave enables hardware acceleration which results in a much higher energy (battery) consumption than the most other web browsers.
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Safety and privacy well taken care of
Things like https everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best.
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IndustriousTatenen's Experience
I don't know how the app claim block ads and provide own ads instead. I do not trust such company, people behind and no trust in accordingly in the privacy.
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Promotes search engines that track users such as Bing and Google
Google Search is the first search engine on the list.
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Free/libre software
Released to the community under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), this software respect the FSF's four freedoms, including the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute with or without modification freely.
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Fast and uses less data.
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Same security-holes as Chrome
On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave. However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts.
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The version for Android is regularly updated
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Download package is very large considering it as a browser
Brave takes on a lot of roles besides just browsing so it is understandably a larger file.
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Very fast built-in adblock
The fastest browser out there. With the latest update Brave is my favorite browser on my PC and on my Phone. The built in adblock and the rewards system are amazing.
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Still dependent on Google
Since it's based on Chrome.
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Now supports Chrome Webstore
It's now a faster, less intrusive Chrome.
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The iPhone version has some odd behavior
On reopening Brave, it often returns you to the "search results" page, rather than the webpage you had previously browsed to from the search results page. Might just be a specific configuration.
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Faster than Google Chrome
Brave consistently beats Chrome in speed, might have to do with less tracking being run in the background
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Dumbed down in the latest versions
In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar.
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Takes care of privacy and security
Takes privacy seriously by blocking ads and trackers and not tracking people's searches. Things like HTTPS everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best.
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Quite intrusive advertisements, especially on Windows
Advertisements keep popping up in the Windows notification center. Must opt in to ad system, but no option to disable sound for ad notifications only.
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Tor is available right in the browser
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Useless built-in 'ad blocker'
Its adblocker is useless to be honest. Since the extension uBlock Origin is a great blocker by itself, the Brave ad blocker does not block every ad!
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Data savings
Puffin servers can compress pictures before you download them for faster page downloads and data savings for capped data plans.
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Weak ad blocker
Does not block ads.
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License:
Proprietary
Based On:
N/A
Browser Engine:
Blink
Platforms:
Windows, Android, Android TV, macOS
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Optional touchpad and cursor
Some websites require hover.
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Logs browsing history
According to their privacy policy, they log the URLs of all websites visited by their users.
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Seriously fast
In tests performed by PhoneArena, Puffin consistently outperformed any other browser both on synthetic JavaScript speed tests as well as real world cold page loads.
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Not compatible with all sites
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Loads banned websites
It loads websites which other browsers don't.
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Renders Flash
Games and videos. Most mobile browsers don't support it.
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Built-in reading mode
Reading mode allows removing everything on a page but the content. It removes ads, styling and anything else that could get in the way of a comfortable reading experience.
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Extremely fast
Uses a split architecture whereby some of the processing is performed on cloud servers to improve webpage loading performance.
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