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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 98 points 2 weeks ago

Can't believe people always use this crypto-spam browser.

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 weeks ago

Same, I was surprised brave is so popular.

[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

I use it to pirate sports streams and thats pretty much it. It just works better than Firefox for some reason.

[-] JayGray91@piefed.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

Probably because it's chromium based and the sites are chromium optimized

That's my opinion at least

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well, it does do a fantastic job of removing ads and reducing fingerprinting.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago

So does Librewolf. What's the benefit of brave? Chrome-based? Checked chromium from time to time and don't think chrome is superior over Firefox.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Neither do I. I use Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox.

Brave has its own content blocking system, which is on-par with uBO and better than uBO Lite. I tested it myself a while back, and Cover Your Tracks, Fingerprint.com, and CreepJS indicated that it was incredibly difficult to fingerprint: moreso than Librewolf, but slightly less so than Tor/Mullvad.

That said, however, PrivacyTests.org indicates that Librewolf blocks more tracking technologies than Brave, so it's possible things have changed since I last experimented with browsers other than Tor and Mullvad.

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Chromium is generally more secure than firefox.

[-] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wow I got downvoted a lot on that I thought it was a generally agreed upon fact. Source (graphene os)

I still use firefox btw because I prefer it for many other reasons but chromium is definetely more secure.

[-] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

GraphaneOS founder has fetish for Chromium and he hates F-Droid 1

tldr: he accuse f-droid not being secure and citing this bs post https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ and he promotes accrescent.app

  • they contain closed-source app
  • they have very flawed understanding of open-source and security 2, 3

here is some examples:

Open source doesn't necessarily mean more secure. I'm aware of many open source apps with numerous well-known security vulnerabilities, as well as many closed-source apps that are highly secure. Furthermore, Accrescent will have a filter to, for example, show only open source apps, so your treatment is incomprehensible.

Accrescent doesn't claim to serve only open-source apps and never has out of the belief that an app's source model doesn't inherently make it more or less private or secure. Qlango doesn't violate any explicit or implicit Accrescent policy by the properties you listed, so it would be inappropriate to remove it.

...In addition, "trackers" are subjective. Accrescent has no plans to enumerate specific libraries or classes and blacklist them solely based on the fact that they connect to Google, Amazon, etc.; collect analytics; or contain proprietary code. This approach isn't scalable anyway because it is trivial to bypass such detection methods.

So I take everything GraphaneOS says with a grain of salt

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

daniel micay:

You're well aware that the CalyxOS / F-Droid community has made multiple attempts at having me killed through severe swatting attacks

holy shit that's batshit crazy. is there any proof this actually happened?

[-] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

You can check their disinformation campain https://lemmy.zip/post/59060122

[-] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

One source from a sadly biased author. I am honestly too lazy to aggregate some numbers for CVEs to find out what's the truth but I am sure that it is not an inherent quality of chromium to be more secure.

[-] Sustolic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

WebHID support which some webapp configuration tools need to function

[-] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Brave and Firefox are very competitive when it comes to pushing unnecessary "features" on their users. (Remember when Mozilla bought an NFT and AI company to put a shopping toolbar in their browser?)

[-] megopie@beehaw.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm just speaking on the two most popular browsers according to the survey - LibreWolf is in a league of its own for sure.

this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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