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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 386 points 1 month ago

"Forget the fox!"

... "Contains ads"

No, I don't think I will.

[-] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 74 points 1 month ago

It's on Chromium so I will not use them

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[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 223 points 1 month ago

Contains Ads

I don't know why anyone ever installed Brave

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 month ago

I think it's more, "may contain ads, if you opt-in to earning BAT."

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 month ago

Make it

Contains a way to earn some kind of currency

So the browser itself is like an ad

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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

Brave still does include ads enabled by default. You need to disable sponsored images in the New Tab page.

[-] red@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Haven't found anything on Android to replace it with, and on Desktop swapped to it after Chrome Manifest V3.

I work as a web dev, and after the install I just disabled the wallet etc, and am left with a browser with native quick dark mode toggle, built in support for ublock lists, and otherwise familiar Chrome experience, with full extension support and foldable device support.

Firefox has certain UI/UX choices I dislike, and they are behind in implementing lots of features (that are rarely an issue to non devs).

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[-] 4am@lemm.ee 204 points 1 month ago

Brave? The browser that hides ads and substitutes their own? The one that keeps you private from Google AdSense so they can sell your data themselves? The one that keeps their Chromium build lean, so that you don’t notice the crypto miner running along side of it?

The fucking PayPal Honey of browsers? When the fuck did they ever look good? They’re like the “Banzai Buddy” of the HTML5 era

[-] sleepmode@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

CEO is a bigot, too.

[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 123 points 1 month ago

I have been using Brave for the last year and I did like it as a mobile browser. But today I noticed that when I was searching about abortion and etopic pregnancy (fact checking a really dumb article) that all of a sudden their AI crap was throwing "no results available" errors. I checked some other left leaning topics and sure enough it no longer gives you AI results. So I immediately uninstalled that shit from my phone because fuck them.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 38 points 1 month ago

Is not having AI results really a bad thing?

[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 55 points 1 month ago

Not at all. I never wanted to see AI and it kept turning itself back on this was just the final push for me to uninstall it.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 month ago

I'm guessing it's more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed

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[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 105 points 1 month ago

Brave has never had a good look.

[-] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 85 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck Brave, it's based on Chromium and contains crypto BS.

[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave 🤷 (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)

Edit: Oh yes, and the CEO's homophobia is not helping either...

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[-] Interstellar_1 53 points 1 month ago

It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago

Kind of funny they list their built-in, paid VPN as a positive feature and not a negative. Maybe they were running out of good things to say about... Themselves.

Granted, Mozilla also shot themselves in the foot by saying Firefox was better for not blocking ads by default, but that's a different story for a different day

I mean, you could do this with anything

nazism:

-✅️ Very terrifying and intimidating uniforms

Every other ideology:

-❌️ Does not have terrifying and intimidating uniforms*

*According to opinions of career nazis

This is what Brave is doing 🙄

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[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not very professional.

It's not the 90s and they are not rivaling fast food chains.

"Was getting tired Brave, and noticed they mentioned Firefox in their ads. Was curious what that was and upon launching Firefox, immediately I felt something, my disappointment is no longer immeasurable, and my day is no longer ruined!"

brave = 0/5 🤮

Firefox = 6/5 😎

[-] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago

Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.

[-] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 month ago
[-] Rose@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 month ago

Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

"Fire the Fox" would have been a better slogan

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.

[-] teolan@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.

Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

Well, they threatened students for creating a fork. So yeah, they are dead to me

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 month ago

Broke one of the golden rules of advertising (at least the advertising lessons I learned from an old advertising guy I knew a long time ago)

Never mention your competition in your advertising .... because every time you do, you've given them free advertising.

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[-] azron@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 month ago

Hahahhaah. If they are so desperate they are trying to knock off the 10 or so users on Firefox they must really be in dire straights.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago

Iirc, it only comes up if you search for firefox. They could have changed it.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 33 points 1 month ago

Confirmed. They definitely paid to advertise under "Firefox" searches.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I got the same result, searching for Firefox on Play store

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Yup, third confirmation that this shows up as a "limited time event" which I suspect is an ad in playstore if you search for firefox.

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[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Forget the Lion

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago

Meh, they can shoot at Firefox if they want, but it's actually pretty good marketing for the Fox.

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[-] sma3in@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Guess you're outside the EU or something? Cause it looks different over here, Firefox isn't mentioned here. Also they're at 4.9 instead of 4.7 for some reason. Either way, fuck brave.

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[-] borth@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

How is it more private, when the browser is the one handling your data to show you ads, on top of the websites trying to do the same. So, extra ads? Wtf.

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[-] yrmitz@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

Ungoogled Chromium flatpak

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

If you're gonna get a browser with a brave-like experience, might as well get a Firefox based one like Zen.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

How about no

Either Firefox with Arkenfox userjs or Librewolf

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Desperate much??

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

Android app person here. They used that title in an A/B test to see if it would help them get more installs for when people searched "Firefox". That is why 1. They picked the words "fire" and "fox", and 2. Why you're not seeing it.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

After installing Brave I was getting some kind of failed login popup in my GNOME desktop environment. Uninstalled it and the popup disappeared. It gave me the heeby jeebies about Brave.

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