This is not a good look for brave. : firefox

[–] Viatorem@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

used brave for like a year, saved up however much in their stupid coin and when i went to get it, my browser reset how many ads i saw.

[–] yrmitz@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

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

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 48 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.

[–] sma3in@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

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

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

One feels there is an allegory for "too stupid to be afraid" buried in here.

[+] Matriks404@lemmy.world -6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

All web browsers are shit, Firefox and Brave included.

[–] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Never thought I would see a version of "all lives matter" but applied to web browsers

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I went from using a web browser for everything, to trying to find native apps for everything.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same apps that have access to more of your data (because they're not sandboxed in a browser), use electron (ships a browser) and include trackers that one can't simply block with an extension?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I meant, like email and lemmy desktop clients.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Wasn't brave the crypto mining browser? I remember there was some scandal with brave

[–] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing this

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it comes up as an ad if you search for "firefox"

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did that. Brave is like 19th on the results list and there's no "forget the fox" in the app name.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

Desperate much??

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pixelapoc@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Sure, I just found it too annoying and the easiest solution was to uninstall Brave.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, it tries to use the keyring to store passwords every time you launch it even if you turned off password saving, the same applies to chrome and chromium browsers in general plus most password managers, tho not always. I tried to troubleshoot it, most forums online suggested to remove gnome key-rings if you are not using them but it kept reinstalling it. This plus brave being slower on mobile made me switch to firefox

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Ah so that's what it was!

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This post needs to get to 666 upvotes and stay there.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

too late

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's at 666 for me.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

its at 672 here, and 667 on lemmy.ml

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Time to remove our upvotes. 😂

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I downvote your upvote!

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

does brave still provide free VPNs

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

yes.