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[-] Peasley@lemmy.world 156 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

YSK: Brendan Eich left Mozilla over his own homophobic beliefs. He is also a coronavirus denier.

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Brave is homophobic Chrome with crypto on top

[-] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 44 points 4 weeks ago

A good enough reason to ignore Brave tbqh

[-] fatalicus@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago

And they tried to steal money while claiming it was donations for content creators.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, honestly the most damning thing they've done, selling out their own users

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[-] portside@monyet.cc 31 points 4 weeks ago

I never liked Brave tbh, something about it felt sketchy with all the crypto stuff

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 weeks ago

I could hate JavaScript for free, I'm very thankful Brendan gave me an extra reason

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

And he inflicted JavaScript upon the world, completely wrecking the World Wide Web. Fucker should burn in Hell for that, let alone the other stuff!

[-] LazyWatermelon3623@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Fuck Brave. Just use Firefox.

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Brave is a great browser, specially on older mobile. It is the default browser for the Nobara gaming linux distro, because it's so good, and recently ranked top tier browser by Pewdiepie.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 25 points 4 weeks ago

why would a desktop distro care that a browser works well on mobile? what was their actual reason?

also, we already went over this: that tier list was not his. it was in his video because he was quoting another video. and if he did it fact rank browsers, what was the ranking based on?

you can't just say things.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

I don't give a shit, to be honest. It's a question of morality for me.

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[-] Peasley@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Nonsense.

Browsers on iOS are all just Safari, there is no meaningful difference. On older Android FOSS Browser or Fennec + Ublock + Noscript are both faster and more stable than Brave.

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[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 4 weeks ago

Go ahead all you want. I'll never install Brave because it's chromium based and because of their leadership and their choices.

[-] AlecSadler 10 points 4 weeks ago

What do you use? I struggle to not have at least one chromium variant installed for work purposes - I feel like half my jobs' apps or sites don't work in Firefox.

[-] prole 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I have ungoogled-chromium installed just in case, but have yet to actually require it.

[-] Dhs92@programming.dev 7 points 4 weeks ago
[-] AlecSadler 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Sadly it seems to be a JavaScript or CSS engine issue :(

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

graphene os + vanadium is secure and private. Still chromium based though.

[-] scintilla@beehaw.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

If you have to use something chromium based just use chromium or Vivaldi if you like something more customized.

At least ime they both work fine. but no one can really tell you what you should use. I avoid brave hard because I trust Peter Theil less than I would trust an addict to give me back the 100$ I loaned them.

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[-] kepix@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago

i used this piece of crap on windows, and theres always a small brave.exe running in the background even when you disable background running. i have no abiloty to prove its spyware, but doesnt strike confidence.

also we have cromite, librewolf, ironfox, why would i install this crap?

[-] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 4 weeks ago

probably an update service. all browsers do it on windows because the os doesn't handle updates.

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[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 points 4 weeks ago

Come on, it's open source. It has some analytics but definitely not spyware

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

Come on, it's open source.

Oh wow, when you put it that way! 🤪

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Many types of malware are open source

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[-] Pro@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

LibreWolf does not exist on Android?

[-] Turret3857@infosec.pub 6 points 4 weeks ago
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[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 36 points 4 weeks ago

Cool I guess. But I still find Brave to be a sketchy organization with how they have done some of their schemes to make money over the years. So will continue to avoid anything they make.

[-] 0xtero@beehaw.org 31 points 4 weeks ago

Brave has a good marketing team.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago

good, now it can go fuck itself without google's interference

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 weeks ago

While continuing to use their own proxies to send your data to google.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 weeks ago

I gave Brave a try back in the early days. The Brave wallet was useless and something I didn't wanted. There wasn't much to differentiate it from Chrome back then on desktop. On mobile, it has built in Adblock but that's it. Vivaldi, IMO, bundles in more features for a Chromium based browser.

Either case, I have been on Firefox for multiple years now despite it's own issues. uBlock Origin is properly supported on it (both desktop and mobile). I think FF(nightly version or Iceraven, a FF fork) is the only browser that allows sideloading of extensions on mobile. Chromium based browsers are way behind in this regard.

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[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 weeks ago

Firefox can be installed from Mozilla and managed by Obtainium. Much better option all the way around.

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[-] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Sustolic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

At the very least the best open source chromium browser although the majority of those on lemmy hate the CEO behind it.

For my use cases I need to use a chromium browser so I use brave on windows, iOS and Linux

[-] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ha, wait until they hear who the main developers are for Lemmy! Not much moral consistency

[-] rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 weeks ago

I like Brave and That is great. You know what also great signing the stop killing games initiative EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

[-] commander@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

I wish Firefox would do this. I'm stubbornly always favoring it for a non-Chromium browser

[-] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 4 weeks ago

fennec is on f-droid.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

To add to the others, Fennec is a fantastic replacement and has extension support.

Also heard good things about LibreWolf. Mull had some buggy behaviours I couldn't seem to configure away from so I guess YMMV, but that was my experience.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago

Have you tried Obtanium? Allows to download and update from github, among other sources. There's even a site with source configs that's very helpful, and includes firefox.

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

Alternatively, Fennec is basically firefox and it's on f-droid.

[-] shaoiken@feddit.org 7 points 4 weeks ago

I use IronFox which is on Accresent or hosts it's own F-Droid repository alternatively. To me that's even better than vanilla Firefox on F-Droid.

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[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago

So they can send your data to Microsoft instead of both.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Brave's a bunch of marketing/advertising driven crypto"currency" i.e., pyramid scheme peddlers desperate for greater fools.
↳ “Kill yourself.” —Bill Hicks.

On a computer either use uBlock Origin-included LibreWolf for stability and privacy, Zen browser for power users, and on Android one can use Fennec; all of them Firefox derivatives.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[-] 68silver@beehaw.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

That is great. Been using Brave for years.

[-] devilish666@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

i used Vivaldi because it's good & has built in adblocker/tracker blocker that i can customize the hell out of it with tons of custom filter

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[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Thanks for the F-Droid

-Dirty Mike and the boys

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