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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope people finally quit that shit of a browser.

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a web developer the problem I have is there are issues with all the browsers that are available today:

Chrome and Edge are owned by big companies and report god-knows-what back to their motherships whilst constantly pushing their own services
Firefox uses its own rendering engine so it can have some Firefox specific bugs / differences that might be missed, plus doesn’t have support for some of the extensions that you want
Safari doesn’t have windows or extensions support
Opera is full of random features and promotional bumpf that I don’t care about and have to turn off
Vivaldi is a complicated beast that takes a bunch of work to set up, it also includes a mail client, calendar and feed reader in the browser which I don’t need.
DuckDuckGo doesn’t have any extension support at all
Arc is really fiddly and doesn’t always behave how I want it to (bookmarks behave like tabs for some reason)
Brave pulls things like this and is also full of crypto/wallet type stuff, plus you can’t even change your home page.

I just want a simple Chromium browser that doesn’t require me to turn a bunch of shit off, is private by default and supports extensions, I don’t think it’s too much to ask!

[–] Z4rK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess you do get 3-4 questions when you install Vivaldi, like do you want tabs on top, should it import anything, and do you want to use mail and calendar too or just browser.

But “a complicated beast” to set up? No, it works like any other browser right out of the box. It offers advanced customization if you want to dive into them though.