Snapchat links problem - Mate 8 General

Hey people,
When i attach a YouTube link to snapchat its always (video not available)..
Is it with you all or just me?

This is an issue with Snapchat, NOT your phone. Here's the deal. Snapchat filters URLs linked to snaps and changes all capital letters to lowercase. This breaks most YouTube and Instagram URLs. If you are lucky enough to have a YT or IG post whose ID contains lowercase letters and no capitals, it will work. Otherwise, Snapchat munges it. Interestingly enough, this mostly only affects what are arguably two of Snapchat's biggest competitors. Now, I don't want to be cynical or anything, but that's one hell of a coinkydink. Surf Wisely.

dolst said:
This is an issue with Snapchat, NOT your phone. Here's the deal. Snapchat filters URLs linked to snaps and changes all capital letters to lowercase. This breaks most YouTube and Instagram URLs. If you are lucky enough to have a YT or IG post whose ID contains lowercase letters and no capitals, it will work. Otherwise, Snapchat munges it. Interestingly enough, this mostly only affects what are arguably two of Snapchat's biggest competitors. Now, I don't want to be cynical or anything, but that's one hell of a coinkydink. Surf Wisely.
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Thanks man, very clear ??

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Contents in gmail aren’t always shown… why?

Is there a setting that I overlooked? My gmail on my phone or desktop are fine and show all the links, jpegs, anything.. but not so much on the trans, some contents like jpegs, links, and random stuff just don’t show and I can’t quite figure out why. Super annoying. Anyone know why?
E46M3 said:
Is there a setting that I overlooked? My gmail on my phone or desktop are fine and show all the links, jpegs, anything.. but not so much on the trans, some contents like jpegs, links, and random stuff just don’t show and I can’t quite figure out why. Super annoying. Anyone know why?
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I have the same question. I always have to allow images.
diecast17 said:
I have the same question. I always have to allow images.
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You might not have the same problem as me as even if I allow images, it's still not showing. and it's not just pictures, it's random stuff like links, and whatever it may be, I'm not really sure...

Usage of higher privileges in store

Hey,
After seeing that Moliplayer Pro and other 3rd party apps like phriz.be got access to the ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO_FULL to get access to videos, I wanted to discuss how weird Microsoft seems giving these privileges to a video player app but not to Whatsapp, which is of crucial importance for the platform. I don't say this because I need it, but Whatsapp is #1 app with extremely bad reviews, and the most used reason for the bad critics are the inability to send/save videos. What do you think, should Microsoft just open up the API for everyone, or just to selected developers? Furthermore, does anyone happen to know why they gave the capability to these developers and not to those of Whatsapp, Facebook or any other social network that could really make use of them? Not even Instagram and Vine, who are about sharing videos, can access them from the device. It seems extremely enological to me..
EDIT: Whatsapp seems to have gained the capability in their recent beta, at least WPCentral reports so. Other apps that are allowed to use it were the old youtube app and nokia video upload
th0mas96 said:
Hey,
After seeing that Moliplayer Pro and other 3rd party apps like phriz.be got access to the ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO_FULL to get access to videos, I wanted to discuss how weird Microsoft seems giving these privileges to a video player app but not to Whatsapp, which is of crucial importance for the platform. I don't say this because I need it, but Whatsapp is #1 app with extremely bad reviews, and the most used reason for the bad critics are the inability to send/save videos. What do you think, should Microsoft just open up the API for everyone, or just to selected developers? Furthermore, does anyone happen to know why they gave the capability to these developers and not to those of Whatsapp, Facebook or any other social network that could really make use of them? Not even Instagram and Vine, who are about sharing videos, can access them from the device. It seems extremely enological to me..
EDIT: Whatsapp seems to have gained the capability in their recent beta, at least WPCentral reports so. Other apps that are allowed to use it were the old youtube app and nokia video upload
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They should open up the god forsaken APIs to everyone.
It is not as if you can do a lot of harm by saving videos to ml.

Swiftkey Bugs / Swiftkey problems / Swiftkey issues

For 1 whole year I regularly contacted Swiftkey by email and their facebook page and asked to fix this and they never fixed it, the biggest issue/bug is, Swiftkey is taking COPIED text as TYPED text. It should take typed words only (this is big reason behind inaccurate/unneeded word prediction). Could you do something about it?
Below is the email i wrote to Swiftkey and they never implemented or fixed these in their recent versions.
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Improvement idea #1:
This is the big reason behind incorrect/inaccurate word prediction.
I was a die hard fan of Swiftkey until I realized that Swiftkey is taking COPIED text as TYPED Text resulting in unwanted prediction of words we already removed by selecting 'Do not predict xxxx'. STOP THIS PLZ
I checked this twice thrice and informing you. The problem is: Saving the words what we type is good but BAD/WORST part is, it also saves the words when you just copy text from other sources for example: Copying random text or paragraph from webpages, Ebooks and Documents. Those text are NOT TYPED by the user and those words GET COPIED to internal dictionary of Swiftkey which I don't like to be predicted while I type. I copy some text/paragraphs from webpages to read it later but it doesn't mean that I like all the words from that copied text/paragraphs and would not want those words predicted--as it can contain whatever words which i never typed and just copied it and while typing those words come across as prediction.
You can Experiment yourself.
1. Just copy the below words in a new note and save it. (do this on your android mobile not on PC) I would never use the below words ever.
2. Now, Suppose, you do not want the word 'Chateau' never ever to appear or predicted.
3. Open another new note and try to type 'chateau', you'll see 'chateau' appears in prediction bar. Long press the word 'Chateau', a message pop out saying 'Do not predict 'chateau' again.', hit 'OK.
4. Now, open the first note with all the below words saved and copy word 'Chateau' and see it will stupidly gets added to the dictionary of Swiftkey and you'll see them come across while you type.
Did you just observed ? You copied the word, you could have copied 2-3 paragraphs from the webpage which could contain more or few words which you never wish to type/use. it should not be added by Swiftkey.---this is exactly what is happening and it is leading to worst word predictions. Yes, if you rather type the entire word 'Chateau' then it should predict. Got my point ?
Words:
chateau
chatman
chatham
zuzana
zyban
zuma
zu
beau
beaune
beauregard
Improvement idea # 2:
I use Swiftkey's compact mode only to type and it is good in portrait mode. But in landscape mode, the other half screen is occupied with the empty space of keyboard. (Please check the attached picture).
Improvement idea # 3:
Sync from Whatsapp needed as many guys use whatsapp than facebook these days.
Improvement idea # 4:
Want to view dictionary words in each language and want to remove the words i never use.
Improvement idea # 5:
Shortcuts for cut, copy, paste like swype keyboard please.
Improvement idea # 6:
'Choose input method' notification bugging.
Improvement idea # 7:
Provide option to set flow trials color and width.
Could anyone fix atleast the idea #1 ? Swiftkey team is waste they give irrelevant replies to our emails, they never carefully read what user is saying.
Thank you,
Athar
Done
Good post
What options need shut off to reduce memory usage.... Maybe add a few other check boxes with notes about memory savings
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I thing I manage to disable the method that executes learning from text copy. Try it and let me know how it works.
nijel8 said:
I thing I manage to disable the method that executes learning from text copy. Try it and let me know how it works.
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I LOVE IT. Thank you very much for this mod. It's working 99% the 1% which is lacking is: It pridicts the word 'zyban' from the below list of unwanted words and that word force remains added when i delete it.
chatman
chateau
Chatham
zuzana
zyban
May be the word is the last one so remains force added?
Atharkhan101 said:
I LOVE IT. Thank you very much for this mod. It's working 99% the 1% which is lacking is: It pridicts the word 'zyban' from the below list of unwanted words and that word force remains added when i delete it.
chatman
chateau
Chatham
zuzana
zyban
May be the word is the last one so remains force added?
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I can easy add logging for you to watch what and when was blocked from learning in that particular method. The logcat message is displayed as array of all copied words. That way you can see if something else is not blocked as well. Just let me know...
nijel8 said:
I can easy add logging for you to watch what and when was blocked from learning in that particular method. The logcat message is displayed as array of all copied words. That way you can see if something else is not blocked as well. Just let me know...
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I would love to let you know but i can't read those catlog or logfiles. I'm a noob and very far from being a dev. I tried to delete that word Zyban like 10 times, it is still there. Are you too facing the same?
Atharkhan101 said:
I would love to let you know but i can't read those catlog or logfiles. I'm a noob and very far from being a dev. I tried to delete that word Zyban like 10 times, it is still there. Are you too facing the same?
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I haven't played with it much so I can't answer your question. All I know is that pasted words are no longer added to swiftkey learned words.
nijel8 said:
I haven't played with it much so I can't answer your question. All I know is that pasted words are no longer added to swiftkey learned words.
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With this Solution came in a new problem that is the words are not being deleted.
I've attached the screenshot of the words which i want to delete.

Downloaded images, but Facebook won't let me use them..??

So I went to google, downloaded an image of something I wanted to put for sale on facebook, but facebook doesn't recognize the image.. So I opened it, took a screenshot of the image and tried again, same bad luck..
It shows up in my images as a blank image (The centered image icon with the little crossed out circle in the bottom right corner), and won't let me click on it, and it does this with more than one type of image as well.. It doesn't do this with all images, mainly just any that I download or screenshot.. Anyone have any tips on fixing this..??
PS - if I open the gallery app, I can view the images just fine, but for some reason it won't let me use them in texts, facebook, etc..
Here's a screenshot so u can see what I'm talking about when trying to add the pics through facebook.
Now when I open the gallery app, they show the image thumbnails, and they open just fine..
Wonder is a new copyright thing, I can see FB limiting you (if so) but kinda odd you couldn't use the pic in question in a text., Mind linking what it was and I can try to posting it in my dummy FB account.
I use the mobile web browser side of FB,no FB app. and I initially had trouble posting ANY pic when I 1st got my V20. The issues sorted itself magically one day. Only way I could post a pic was to hit request desktop version & proceed like normal.
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Wonder is a new copyright thing, I can see FB limiting you (if so) but kinda odd you couldn't use the pic in question in a text., Mind linking what it was and I can try to posting it in my dummy FB account.
I use the mobile web browser side of FB,no FB app. and I initially had trouble posting ANY pic when I 1st got my V20. The issues sorted itself magically one day. Only way I could post a pic was to hit request desktop version & proceed like normal.
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Sure, I actually deleted all of those images and removed them from my "For Sale" posts, but the next time it happens I'll send it over so you can have a shot..
Thanks!

Need help finding my ideal browser.

So here is the deal. I stopped using Chrome quite some time ago in favor of FF Beta. I like it quite a bit, but would like something a little more considerate of my privacy. I found FOSS Browser on F-Droid and loved it, until I found out it doesn't preserve your open tabs. I looked at Brave browser and really liked the look of that, but it doesn't seem to support sync on mobile and I can find no info on if you can back up it's data and if so what. Kiwi would also be an ideal solution I think if it supported sync or backups.
Sync is not an absolute requirement for me if I can back up my tabs and bookmarks.
I don't care about password storage as I use a separate password database.
I want the ability to have multiple tabs and have them preserved.
Privacy is important, but I don't need one of those always incognito types as that would not preserve my tabs and such.
Again FOSS would be perfect if it just preserved my open tabs. It seems the dev is not worried about that feature, so I am not going to hold my breath for it either. If someone has experience with Brave and can confirm I can do backups with it, even if it isn't built in and ADB backups of it work well, that would probably be good. Especially since they will eventually add sync.
TIA for your thoughts!
have you tried BRAVE browser? its based on chromium - I use that mostly
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p33l05 said:
have you tried BRAVE browser? its based on chromium - I use that mostly
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I just re-read your post... apologies.. it does have a beta sync feature although I haven't tested that yet
p33l05 said:
have you tried BRAVE browser? its based on chromium - I use that mostly
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I just re-read your post... apologies.. it does have a beta sync feature although I haven't tested that yet
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No problem! I'm happy to get any input even on the ones I mentioned. I may test the beta sync out. I am very interested in Brave anyways.
dragunbayne said:
So here is the deal. I stopped using Chrome quite some time ago in favor of FF Beta. I like it quite a bit, but would like something a little more considerate of my privacy. I found FOSS Browser on F-Droid and loved it, until I found out it doesn't preserve your open tabs. I looked at Brave browser and really liked the look of that, but it doesn't seem to support sync on mobile and I can find no info on if you can back up it's data and if so what. Kiwi would also be an ideal solution I think if it supported sync or backups.
Sync is not an absolute requirement for me if I can back up my tabs and bookmarks.
I don't care about password storage as I use a separate password database.
I want the ability to have multiple tabs and have them preserved.
Privacy is important, but I don't need one of those always incognito types as that would not preserve my tabs and such.
Again FOSS would be perfect if it just preserved my open tabs. It seems the dev is not worried about that feature, so I am not going to hold my breath for it either. If someone has experience with Brave and can confirm I can do backups with it, even if it isn't built in and ADB backups of it work well, that would probably be good. Especially since they will eventually add sync.
TIA for your thoughts!
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Samsung Internet
Samsung Internet Beta
3 times in 3 months I had to use chrome, ****ty sites not the browser's fault!
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My main Android browser is Opera I have almost 70 tabs open all the time and most of them in Desktop user agent. I tried many browsers but always return to Opera. Give it a try.
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Samsung Internet
Samsung Internet Beta
3 times in 3 months I had to use chrome, ****ty sites not the browser's fault!
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Samsung internet is not really good for my privacy. It reports back everything to Samsung and who knows what they do with it. Also I don't trust their backup for the browser I tried it once and when I redid my phone there was no backup.
liamR said:
My main Android browser is Opera I have almost 70 tabs open all the time and most of them in Desktop user agent. I tried many browsers but always return to Opera. Give it a try.
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I will look into it. I used to be an Opera user way back. They had the best (maybe only ) browser for my Walkman flip phone!
sullytrny said:
Samsung Internet
Samsung Internet Beta
3 times in 3 months I had to use chrome, ****ty sites not the browser's fault!
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I upvote both Samsung Internet and Beta. I especially like the beta as it allows S-Pen functionality like single click to navigate backwards and double click to navigate forwards. I use Kiwi for any crappy site that has issues loading; but I think I've used it once in the last year for that. Samsungs dark mode in their browsers and ad blockers are top notch; you cannot go wrong with them.
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I upvote both Samsung Internet and Beta. I especially like the beta as it allows S-Pen functionality like single click to navigate backwards and double click to navigate forwards. I use Kiwi for any crappy site that has issues loading; but I think I've used it once in the last year for that. Samsungs dark mode in their browsers and ad blockers are top notch; you cannot go wrong with them.
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I may look into how to block the browser from communicating with Samsung too much. I do see it recommended a lot and from what little I have used it, it seems good. I especially like the S-Pen functionality, that sounds cool.
I'm closer to being sold on Samsung Internet after seeing you can use disconnect with it now. Still looking into how and what it reports back to Samsung.
all this time I was sitting on a little gem! Thanks to all who recommended Samsung browser, it's really good!
rusty.gh said:
all this time I was sitting on a little gem! Thanks to all who recommended Samsung browser, it's really good!
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Just make sure you get the adguard and disconnect add-ons. They will speed things up and keep you safer. I am switching to it for now and am surprised at how fast and smooth it is.
Oh! Also go into settings>privacy and security and turn off customization service to turn off the Samsung tracking and turn on do not track.
Which ad blocker addon for Samsung Internet browser do you guys find the best?
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I've been enjoying the old version of Samsung Internet beta that still has the built in video assistant:
https://www.sammobile.com/apk/samsung-internet-beta/samsung-internet-browser-beta-8-2-01-2/
Ps. Get a VPN imo IMO exspressvpn
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p33l05 said:
Which ad blocker addon for Samsung Internet browser do you guys find the best?
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I've been enjoying the old version of Samsung Internet beta that still has the built in video assistant:
https://www.sammobile.com/apk/samsung-internet-beta/samsung-internet-browser-beta-8-2-01-2/
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I actually use 3 of them, try them all!
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With Samsung Internet is there any way to do the double tap and pull zoom method? I use that all the time to zoom with one hand and it doesn't seem to work on Samsung but it does in Chrome
Just an opinion if privacy/data collection/trackers/cookies/scripts are an annoyance try reading this. It's called Orfox browser and is built with privacy in mind & is a modified version of Firefox. If you are wanting even more privacy run it with orbot. I could go into depth with all the possibilities but maybe reading for yourself would help you understand how it all works better than me trying to describe how it works. Orfox browser is the Firefox based privacy browser and orbot is basically a VPN that hides your IP by bouncing your connection through many other people, countries & such making it very hard for anyone to track it back to you. Your internet habits, location, cookies, trackers and so on are just pieces of the bigger data collection picture. I suggest that you don't visit the darknet or websites that end in .onion but regular websites ending in .com or .ca or .org or .net for example. You may run into some pretty explicit, violent, depraved, sick, drugs, weapons, & anything illegal you can imagine, and then some. If privacy is a HUGE concern maybe search videos on Orfox & Orbot Privacy on YouTube. If you just want the browser for privacy here is the link & info. Be warned, never use sensitive data such as email addresses, passwords, bank/credit card info, or anything personal on the darknet or sites ending in .onion because any of the many middle servers re-routing your traffic can see your info if they have the knowledge. I'd stick to just Orfox, & when sending sensitive data, just check and hope the site begins with https:// not just http:// and avoid Orbot with Orfox combo. Everything we do is being watched by "big brother" & it makes me sick. Maybe one day we will not have to take extra measures to keep our business our business & not a commodity to be traded & sold. One last note, turning anything dealing with your location to off in the settings does nothing. Google can still see where you are, buildings you enter, they know if you are walking, driving, cycling, your speed, elevation & much more. Only way to not have your location tracked is to power your phone completely off if you wish to not share all of that info. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a phone if we have to resort to keeping it off. How do we receive calls then? Big thanks to Google.com, Samsung, Android, & all those that buy trade and sell our very personal info. Lmfao. Like they care. $$$
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.orfox
Try Kiwi browser. Chromium based but privacy centric and has bottom toolbar option and inbuilt adblock ?
TWiiTCH said:
Just an opinion if privacy/data collection/trackers/cookies/scripts are an annoyance try reading this. It's called Orfox browser and is built with privacy in mind & is a modified version of Firefox. If you are wanting even more privacy run it with orbot. I could go into depth with all the possibilities but maybe reading for yourself would help you understand how it all works better than me trying to describe how it works. Orfox browser is the Firefox based privacy browser and orbot is basically a VPN that hides your IP by bouncing your connection through many other people, countries & such making it very hard for anyone to track it back to you. Your internet habits, location, cookies, trackers and so on are just pieces of the bigger data collection picture. I suggest that you don't visit the darknet or websites that end in .onion but regular websites ending in .com or .ca or .org or .net for example. You may run into some pretty explicit, violent, depraved, sick, drugs, weapons, & anything illegal you can imagine, and then some. If privacy is a HUGE concern maybe search videos on Orfox & Orbot Privacy on YouTube. If you just want the browser for privacy here is the link & info. Be warned, never use sensitive data such as email addresses, passwords, bank/credit card info, or anything personal on the darknet or sites ending in .onion because any of the many middle servers re-routing your traffic can see your info if they have the knowledge. I'd stick to just Orfox, & when sending sensitive data, just check and hope the site begins with https:// not just http:// and avoid Orbot with Orfox combo. Everything we do is being watched by "big brother" & it makes me sick. Maybe one day we will not have to take extra measures to keep our business our business & not a commodity to be traded & sold. One last note, turning anything dealing with your location to off in the settings does nothing. Google can still see where you are, buildings you enter, they know if you are walking, driving, cycling, your speed, elevation & much more. Only way to not have your location tracked is to power your phone completely off if you wish to not share all of that info. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a phone if we have to resort to keeping it off. How do we receive calls then? Big thanks to Google.com, Samsung, Android, & all those that buy trade and sell our very personal info. Lmfao. Like they care. $$$
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.orfox
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Why avoid orbot and how do you use orfox without it?
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Why avoid orbot and how do you use orfox without it?
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You can use orfox just like you would use Firefox. It is more geared towards safety and you can read about it on the developer's website and come up with your own conclusion. It has options such as turning off Scripts and different security settings from low to high depending on how secure you wish your connection to be in terms of trackers and such. When you first launch orfox it will ask you to install Orbot but you can click cancel and use it just as a browser but it is much safer than most of the standard browsers. And the only reason I recommend avoiding Orbot is because it usually ends up leading curious people to the dark web and can very easily lead to your credit card numbers or bank accounts or passwords to email accounts or many other things being stolen because the way it works is it bounces your connection through a whole bunch of other people's PCS and phones and whatever they will be running Orbot on and that's why it is so hard to track somebody when they are using it. I didn't mean for people not to use it just that it is easy to get taken advantage of and even easier to run into things that are mostly illegal and could get someone in serious trouble even if they unintentionally happened upon these sites. I felt the need to give the warning so someone doesn't come back and say you told me this was 100% safe. If you read my post I recommended them to read on the topic and check out YouTube videos before they decide to use Orbot and Tor Fox together.
I'm not sure why you're not using Firefox? I keep going back to it because mostly for the amp link remover. I use Google news and they're all amp links with lots of ads. I need my brother to convert amp pages to regular. Brave didn't have that capability.
p33l05 said:
have you tried BRAVE browser? its based on chromium - I use that mostly
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I just re-read your post... apologies.. it does have a beta sync feature although I haven't tested that yet
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From wikipedia:
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Business_model)
Brave Software has announced that it is developing a feature allowing users to opt in to receiving ads sold by the company in place of ads blocked by the browser.[8][9][10] Brave intends to pay content publishers 55% of the replaced ad revenue. Brave Software, ad partners, and browser users would each be allocated 15% of the revenue. Users would be able to donate their revenue share to content publishers through micropayments.[11]
In a testing version of the browser, Brave targets web ads by analyzing users' anonymized browsing history.[12]

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