Fuck Brave, it's based on Chromium and contains crypto BS.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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I tried it a few years ago. Ditched it because it's just another chromium browser.
Firefox has been my main for about 6 years now.
I fell for it because Al Swiegerts book: "Automate the boring stuff" used it in the webscrape sample.
After that I just kept using it. And felt justified in my choice when I realized the only other browsers left are chrome and Safari.
I just learned that Safari is a fork on Konquorer. So, that's interesting.
Fox around and find out
I have been using Brave for the last year and I did like it as a mobile browser. But today I noticed that when I was searching about abortion and etopic pregnancy (fact checking a really dumb article) that all of a sudden their AI crap was throwing "no results available" errors. I checked some other left leaning topics and sure enough it no longer gives you AI results. So I immediately uninstalled that shit from my phone because fuck them.
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Brave has never had a good look.
It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.
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Broke one of the golden rules of advertising (at least the advertising lessons I learned from an old advertising guy I knew a long time ago)
Never mention your competition in your advertising .... because every time you do, you've given them free advertising.
And it's just bad to say, for example, about other person or country. Like some candidate for president in other liberal country will say "yes, we have issues, but hey, at least we are not like shitty Texas where abortion mostly illegal, so vote for us!"
The same Brave founded by the anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI CEO that doesn't believe that gay people should have the same rights as straight people? Color me shocked!
And they made a donation to an anti gay marraige org on mozillas behalf.
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Yep, Brave is the butt-hurt edgelord of browsers.
Hahahhaah. If they are so desperate they are trying to knock off the 10 or so users on Firefox they must really be in dire straights.
How is it more private, when the browser is the one handling your data to show you ads, on top of the websites trying to do the same. So, extra ads? Wtf.
Brave is also just essentially rebranded Chromium funded by an anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI right-wing CEO.
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Brave comes with built in ad blocking.
If you're gonna get a browser with a brave-like experience, might as well get a Firefox based one like Zen.
How about no
Either Firefox with Arkenfox userjs or Librewolf
I’ve never heard of Arkenfox userjs. Thank you for that.
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Looks like that is desktop only
Sadly. It is still in beta though, so it's still possible for a mobile version in the future. There's a few discussions on the github asking about mobile support (no responses).
Will there be mobile version for Zen Browser?
At the moment, our team does not have the time or resources to develop Android or iOS versions of Zen Browser. Additionally, we believe that Zen’s unique features, particularly its design around vertical tabs, do not translate well to the mobile form factor. As such, we do not currently have plans to develop a mobile version of Zen Browser.
That's exactly what I was thinking, there's nothing in Zen that would add any value to Firefox on mobile.