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Regardless of the CEO, Brave is a great product. The crypto stuff is easy to turn off. Fantastic ad blocking, rarely any problems. What is the best alternative with great ad blocking?
Literally every other browser with uBlock Origin? I am still able to use it even on Chrome.
I have more problems with uBlock Origin breaking the website. Also, it doesn't block other elements such as cookie walls and news letter signup garbage.
I never had any issues using ublock origin.
& Creating own filters in ublock is really easy.
For example i block YouTube shorts using ublock.
Oh my god why haven't I done this yet
some sites that are anti-adblock will "break: with ublock orgin, and some with adguard or privacy badger, i just turn one of those off and its fine.
They stole money by adding donation links to content creators pages, then didn't give the donated money to the creators.
I don't know what that has to do with my question? I am not defending anything like that
I see how they didn't answer the question. However, maybe they're not answering your question but commenting on "Brave is a great product".
"Jim occasionally bullies his colleagues but he is a good person otherwise"
That doesn't make it a bad product. I've never interacted with any of the crypto or donation stuff. You go into settings, click "no thanks" and are never bothered by any of that ever again. So no, these stories people repeat ad nauseam don't take away anything from the product. Why don't other people demand better from the alternatives? If there is one better than Brave at fighting popups and stuff, I'm all for it
You will not be getting an invite to my next BBQ.
Haha, that's quite alright. I knew I wasn't going to win a popularity contest here, I just enjoy Brave for what it does and I wish uBlock Origin was just as good
It was a comment on your claim that brave is a great product.
Straight up scamming their users is in my opinion not something that is done by "great products".
Other examples is that Web browser that added their own referral code when users bought stuff on a crypto exchange. Oops, that was brave as well.
Or that one that installed a paid vpn service during an update, without user consent.
You guessed it, brave that as well.
None of that affects the average user. I'm talking about the experience as a browser. No ads, popups, cookie walls, newsletter signup, none of that. Much better than I've seen with Firefox plugins. I don't use their VPN or crypto, it doesn't affect me at all. Crypto is always shady but it's a choice to engage with that, and they do make it easy to avoid completely
Of course it affects the average user, if nothing else then by showing that the browser can't be trusted.
If the people making the browser is willing to alter the Web pages people visit to steal money once, what makes you think they aren't willing to do so again for any number of reasons?
I used it as a secondary browser for a while. I didn't particularly care for it. It's a shame Edge is spyware corporate garbage because that's probably the best Chromium browser besides Ungoogled Chromium. I use Librewolf and the CachyOS browser now.
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