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.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.
Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.
I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for
One feels there is an allegory for "too stupid to be afraid" buried in here.
Wasn't brave the crypto mining browser? I remember there was some scandal with brave
I'm not seeing this
it comes up as an ad if you search for "firefox"
I did that. Brave is like 19th on the results list and there's no "forget the fox" in the app name.
Desperate much??
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.
Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.
Sure, I just found it too annoying and the easiest solution was to uninstall Brave.
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
Ah so that's what it was!
This post needs to get to 666 upvotes and stay there.
too late
It's at 666 for me.
its at 672 here, and 667 on lemmy.ml
Time to remove our upvotes. 😂
I downvote your upvote!
does brave still provide free VPNs
yes.
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