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[–] wigsinator@sh.itjust.works 146 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Brave being listed alongside Firefox

Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It's not a better alternative to Chrome, it's just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.perthchat.org 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave also does sneaky shit with your data

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Could you elaborate on that?

[–] Y2K38@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally use Librewolf. Its just a hardened version of Firefox so you don't have to do it yourself.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I tried it but didn't care to find out if there was a way to stop it from deleting all my tabs and logins, and I'm not relogging into everything just because I needed to close my browser.

[–] Y2K38@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't delete your stuff it just doesn't save your history and cookies as a save browser should do. For me that little inconvenience is fine because I get a big privacy benefit out of it IMO.

[–] adam@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

You can set exceptions to the cookie deletion in the security settings. I personally have everything I use frequently (invidious and stuff) to keep the login cookies. Or you can just completely disable that feature.

[–] alien@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Me too lol, why cant I see other replies tho?

[–] pchem@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.

[–] shourtugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I think the vanilla Brave Settings are better than Vanilla Firefox. Though something like Firefox with a custom user.js or Librewolf is a lot better than Brave

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net -2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately he's also the inventor of JavaScript. Which makes the entire concept of Web 2.0 problematic by association.