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@bytebro @mhoye The browser itself supports crypto, replaces ads (a security risk), and at one point injected affiliate links. For a browser focusing on privacy, the latter two are massive red flags. Here's a full article giving the rundown: https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser 18 comments
 @capn_b @randomwolfguy @mhoye Hah! I'm aware of the feelings of many about the person behind Brave, of course. I've naturally disabled all the telemetry, 'news' and crypto nonsense in Brave. It's still one of the few browsers to rid me of all the advertising cruft on YouTube, for example, out of the box. I tried FF for about a full week, and it's still not for me, at least not yet. Very slow in comparison to Brave, and some of its rendering decisions are just perverse, in my view. Oh, and as my home machine is running Garuda I also tried their version of FF ('DragonFire' or something), but that seems to be just a pretty skin over FF.  @bytebro @randomwolfguy @mhoye hotswapping ads is such a violation of your trust though. I just couldn't. @bytebro @randomwolfguy @mhoye that doesn't make me more inclined to trust it, given that many of the concerns about the browser are about what's going on behind the scenes @alexhammy Still Chromium-based, I believe. I actually used to have a paid sub on Opera back before I said good-bye to Windows on my laptop at home, about 12yrs ago. Wasn't bad then. Then discovered various flavours of Linux, and used Chrome until "Do no evil" became a joke at Google. @alexhammy Indeed. The long-term mission is to migrate away from Chromium-based just because Google basically controls it, FOSS licenses notwithstanding. Currently Brave works for me and has yet to crap the bed on any of my systems. @alexhammy @bytebro "Opera is so cool they have good ad tracking"  @randomwolfguy Brave seems like a massive bait and switch scam. Full stop. @asbestos @randomwolfguy @mhoye Of course. You can not like it for any reason or none at all. I've just failed to find a better one so far, that works how I want. This too will change, perhaps if Mozilla get better at FF, or another non-Chromium contender comes along.  @randomwolfguy I had high hopes for Brave and spent a week using it before learning of the founderβs weird predilections. The tech was decent, but thereβs plenty of decent tech choices nowadays  @randomwolfguy @bytebro @mhoye I seem to recall installing Brave at one point, and it set itself up to load upon startup. @nantucketebooks @randomwolfguy @mhoye Not for me. If I want that I have to add it to start-up apps. This is on Garuda Linux. |
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@randomwolfguy @bytebro @mhoye also the guy behind it invented (shudder) JavaScript, in case those other facts don't scare you enough