What’s wrong with Brave? Does this effect Brave?
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Isn’t brave having its own controversy right now?
Is it ever not having one? Brave is one of the shittier browser companies out there.
Don't forget Opera :)
Opera sold themselves to a Chinese consortium in 2016 and should be considered spyware at this point.
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I have been using firefox wince forever, never really cared about privacy tbh…i just like it 🤷🏼♂️
What’s the real concern about privacy anyway? I mean google (gmail) and apple (iphone) already know more about me than my family…
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I use Firefox, but I do run into a lot of problems with sites not working correctly. Makes me want to switch to Brave occasionally.
Brave is still Chromium based which means giving control over the internet to Google regardless
How about Vivaldi? Is it also chromium based? Any experience with it? Been eying it as a potential replacement for brave. Firefox is such a mess I don't even want to touch it.
Also Chromium. What do you find such a mess about Firefox? When was the last time you used it?
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If only Firefox's management had its head screwed on better. I really don't care about Turning Red themes, I have a KDE theme just to keep it matching my desktop. Just make the core browsing experience better. Hell, take some features from Vivaldi. I've noticed a good portion of Vivaldi users back when I used Reddit were former Firefox users, and I can understand why.
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I personally use brave since a year, and it work like a charm.
Bought a new Pixel 7 Pro and wanted to use Firefox but scrolling was just so bad, lots of stuttering. Using Brave now and am very happy with it. You have to turn off some sneaky shit initially though.
I used to use Brave and saw that article last week about how they are selling your data for AI training. I instantly jumped to Firefox
Source: https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/
Well, you read misinformation then.
Chrome is popular because it works. The average person is not going to give up convenience for privacy, even if they claim to care about it. As someone who uses Firefox, I can say that some websites don't work on Firefox and Firefox is often slower than chromium browsers. While I'm ok with that, others might not be.
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Android users can use an even more private version with telemetry removed. Keeps updated with current version, but is available via F-Droid repository instead.
Fennec (then install add-on uBlock Origin)
Fuck Chromium-based browsers.
removing telemetry feels like shooting yourself into the foot, you remove telemetry, they don't get data about your usage of some advanced feature, they axe the support for that feature because "no one is using it"
cue advanced users complaining about a feature that was axed
Nah. The real advice here is use uBlock Origin and control your cookies. Both Chrome and Firefox contains things that go against user privacy.
That's patently false. You haven't actually read the article have you?
What is exactly false about my statement?
I used chrome for less then 1 day ..it always sucked