It's a for profit ad company making a "privacy first browser".
Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.
you can do privacy friendly ads, it's not because the entire industry has evolved to an horrible point that the good way of doing it can't exist
This is true. Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics used to run and maintain a good sort of ad service called Project Wonderful, that catered to webcomics and blogs and didn't track users. Sadly he shut it down in 2018.
Currently I know of Comicad Network that's trying a similar kind of thing.
Go use some Firefox-derivative like Librewolf or Fennec, like a sane person.
Yeah, this is important. Fuck Google. I will only ever use a chromium browser if I have to for work or for a misbehaving website.
I will reject the misbehaving website rather than resort to using Chromium.
Occasionally though, life requires using a shit website. I do avoid it if possible though
Your attitude is very reasonable. I strive to be as unreasonable as I can.
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw
They also tried to get away with URL injection. Do not use Brave.
Basically the thing that turned the internet against Honey, but when a homophobic piece of shit does it it's fine
Just mentioned how I didn't like people recommending this like last week and got "ok" as a response lol. Some people are just ignorant and don't care.
Brave is just a shitty browser. Did not know they were anti-freedom kind of people. Makes browser no-no.
I did not know Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla and launched Brave because he was a homophobe who funded anti-LGBT+ campaigns 😬
They added referrals to links you clicked. If there is one thing a browser should do its go to the link you click without modification.
I use Firefox. I know it's not perfect, but it's not that bad.
And if I didn't, I'd use Vivaldi. Only reason I don't is I do prefer open source whenever possible and, well, Firefox isn't Chromium.
Firefox is the only browser that has mobile extensions, making it the only choice
Yeah it kinda mystifies me that anyone is still recommending that shitty bigotware.
In the emulation scene, RetroArch is in a similar boat if I'm understanding things correctly. Awful maintainers, but people keep recommending it and supporting it. Sucks too, because there are even fewer alternatives there.
Also, the Brave defenders in this section… holy moly.
Some folks simply cannot admit they made a questionable choice. They picked it and use it, so everyone else must be wrong.
I’ve met people like this in real life.
It's also a chromium browser.
It’s because no-one knows any alternatives.
If one wants a Chrome-based browser that isn’t Chrome, Brave is the highest-profile one by orders of magnitude. Next is a bunch of high-SEO scamware before honest projects like Vivaldi or Helium are even a whisper.
…So I don’t really blame folks for using Brave. They aren't omniscient, and an honest effort to avoid Chrome is still a positive.
I don't blame folks for using it.
I do blame folks for not reading up before recommending it.
I have been using Brave for its out of the box ad and tracker blocking. I'd been uncomfortable with the new AI features and had always been skeptical of the crypto integration, but it wasn't until this post that I realized it was appreciably worse than Firefox on those counts, nor how bad the people running it are.
Obviously, I'm now looking for other options. I've seen some good recs for desktop browsers elsewhere on this post, but what I'm not seeing is a lot of good mobile browser suggestions that will have the desired features. What would the folks here suggest for an e/OS browsing experience with similar or better privacy and ad blocking options? I know there's Firefox, but A. With all the AI it keeps pushing, I'm sure there has to be better and B. I do also have mobile Firefox but have found it substantially less usable for my habit of browsing with a zillion tabs both non-incognito and incognito, so I mostly had only been it when I couldn't get a video to play in Brave.
I am, obviously, willing to run de-Googled Chromium, but if something else is going to actually support 100+ tabs in a performant fashion I'd be happy to totally de-Chromium too.
I also use the shit out of profiles on Brave desktop, though mobile doesn't support it. Do the Firefox forks like Waterfox have a similar option on desktop? Does another browser? I know it's a feature Chrome has because I do sadly have to use Chrome for work, so I would expect at least the de-Googled Chromium-based ones would?
Firefox (and its forks) have an integrated profile manager, though it's not always intuitive to figure out how to get to it. LibreWolf is the fork I seem to always go back to, and it has zero slop.
I use containers. Right-click on the new tab button and pick a container to open the tab in. There's also an add-on that will do this automatically for you when you visit a specific website, so if you want every site to live in its own container, you can do that too.
Personally I just use its built-in cross-site cookie blocking, but multiple ways to do the same thing.
I’ve been using Vivaldi (chromium-based) for about three years now. It’s customizable and has been generally solid. Also has a couple of unique tab management features. Doesn’t have builtin ad blocking afaik. But for that I use adguard desktop and route all my traffic through it, which filters out ads regardless of which browser I’m in. On iOS I can recommend Orion by kagi. It’s the only other webkit browser besides Safari, runs light, and has decent builtin ad blocking
FWIW I remember a former colleague who recommended it to me and his argument was about the cryptocurrency you "earn" from it.
I asked him if he could withdraw it. I asked him if he tried. He said not yet but he would. He came back to me few days later saying something along the line that "it's not straightforward" which was a polite way to say he didn't manage yet. He worked in IT.
To be clear I'm not saying it's a scam or that one can't use the crypto "earned" from it but at least back then, few years ago, some people were just riding on the hope, or even faith, that it would amount to something yet it seemed made in such a way to just hold.
So... not a scam but not exactly empowering users IMHO.
Could someone please recommend an alternative? 😓 I used DuckDuckGo for a while but I NEED something that supports extensions...
I currently use Waterfox which is a fork of Firefox
Firefox forks like Librewolf (or Ironfox for mobile) are good.
Also Vivaldi if you don't mind proprietary.
I've been using vanilla Firefox
Vivaldi is Chromium based but with a team that works towards reducing the privacy and usability impact of running something Chromium based. Retains support for adblockers etc, after Google severely limiting that functionality in Chrome itself. Supports Chrome extensions like usual - better than Chrome itself, now.
There is an inherent cost to internet freedom from using chromium browsers. It gives Google, which controls the back-end, leverage to redefine how the internet works. It's not as though they haven't already done it on multiple occasions.
People will say things like "some websites run better on Chrome" as though that's a selling point and not a red flag.
I'm not saying no one should use it or develop on it, but you have to be okay with the real cost.
Please try Zen browser. I can't go back to any other browser since I switched
I think a lot of pro-Brave people are astroturfers, or heavily influenced by astroturfers. They are definitely not a first choice by any privacy advocate worth their salt.
I don't think an average person would listen to me if I instructed them to get rid of chrome and get Firefox and install couple extensions for privacy.
So, I just ask them to download brave and tell them it's just chrome but better, It blocks all the annoying stuff on the internet and atleast they will stop using the hell of a pacifier that chrome is and move on.
I had no idea about any of this. Have been using brave on android for a few weeks and very happy with it. What would you recommend instead?
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