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king toot uncommon

@randomwolfguy @bytebro @mhoye also the guy behind it invented (shudder) JavaScript, in case those other facts don't scare you enough

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bytebro

@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.
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bytebro

@capn_b @randomwolfguy @mhoye

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.
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king toot uncommon

@bytebro @randomwolfguy @mhoye hotswapping ads is such a violation of your trust though. I just couldn't.

king toot uncommon

@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

bytebro

@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.

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@bytebro still blocks ads better than Firefox tho

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@bytebro just checking, you're aware that brave is also chromium based?

bytebro

@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.

MarkAssPandi

@alexhammy @bytebro "Opera is so cool they have good ad tracking"
My data on their way to China: 🏃🏃🏃

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