Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Both Firefox AND Brave have made questionable decisions>
Yes, but is incredibly disingenuous to equate those mistakes as the same. Firefox has never installed shit on a users computer without consent from the user. Brave has - you know, the same way malware would.
Even though I don't use chromium-based web browsers because of its monopoly, it would be nice if we could integrate brave shields into ungoogled chromium so people wouldn't have to deal with all bloat and surprises from Brave
Of you're on Android, try Cromite. You can add all the uBO lists manually, some are preinstalled.
Thanks but I don't use web browser on mobile and probably if I would, I'd use IronFox or IceRaven
Brave is such a pain, always adding features nobody wants, trying everything they can to get a penny out of their users.
Firefox- yeah Mozilla is making questionable decisions. But it's the best we have.
No.
Brave is factually bad. It's a failed attempt at monetization of users seeking some form of privacy in browsing. From the entire crypto integration with BAT tokens to the weird VPN stuff and more; it's clear that the company who makes the browser is pivoting rapidly and iterating the software to make money from somewhere, somehow.
Brave does treat it's users like a product, and the company has made privacy-impacting decisions. They are very clearly a for-profit company with a well known CEO who operates on a for-profit basis only and never on a non-profit basis. You cannot say that Brave is operated on a non-profit basis. The entire concept of the Brave browser itself is to enable monetization methods that users and privacy advocates clearly want to see depreciated.
Mozilla on the other hand; has only recently begun to take some weird steps. Given that their exclusive contract with Google is likely to be dissolved in courts; they are simply stuck in a financially challenging situation. At no point has Mozilla or Firefox actually done anything actively hostile to privacy or users. While Mozilla does make mistakes; nothing notably wrong that they've done has actively been anything but a simple mistake. They have not yet crossed the threshold into malicious profit motive as of yet. Although many privacy enthusiasts are watching Mozilla very closely for any sign of them crossing that line right now.
Did Firefox add affiliate link redirects for crypto bullshit?
It's pretty fair to dunk on Brave because it's Chromium. I don't want the biggest ad company in the world having the monopoly on how we see the Internet, and Brave perpetuates that.
Right? Why doesn't everybody see how obviously powerful it is to be THE main browser engine and thus how every single Chromium installation and further usage solidify the position of dominance, and thus to dictate the future of the Web (no less!) that it gives to a gigantic corporation? A corporation so big it is at risk of being split in pieces as it was ruled just literally weeks ago that Google had formed an illegal monopoly in its ad business?
Come on people, don't be fucking naive of course it's bad! Of course we SHOULD dunk on Brave and every other browsers doing the same!
firefox at minimum clears the very low bar of not exposing casual user to crypto
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No, after Brave installed a service level running VPN without my consent, and continued to reinstall it silently every background update even after removal, it's a bad browser. That's what malware does.
Comparing two companies with poor track records doesn't make them good companies when compared to each other.
Yesterday I just installed Braze due to the loading speed on Tor that takes up to minutes to even load a site, I thought Braze would be a bit balanced between speed performance and privacy.
However, I instantly regret once I chose to import data from Chrome to Braze in a blink, I realize they are the same. But I don't know any substitute browser available for better speed while respecting privacy. Tor is great on that but takes time. Any recommendation? Should I uninstall Braze?
Just pasting more info for those that were concerned, like me:
Issue. This was rolled back and only seemed to affect Windows.
(I don't use Brave as a daily driver, but it's my Chromium browser of choice when I need assess if a website is really broken, or if it's just misbehaving on Firefox.)
If you are using Windows, double-check your services.msc to ensure that the VPN was disabled/removed. After I got tired of fighting, I uninstalled Brave and the uninstaller did not remove the VPN service. So I have my doubts the patch would remove it.
What's the name of the program I'm looking for?
I don't think I've had their VPN installed (I use FF, Librewolf and Mullvad 99.99% of the time), but I do have Brave installed as a 4th option and have only used it a few times, so I'd like to make sure their VPN wasn't installed at some point.
In Services, I only see three Brave entries. Two are for keeping it up to date, and the other provides elevated privileges.
Thanks
It was a few years back that I dumped Brave and had to perform the surgery to remove the service manually. I can't remember the name exactly, but this article says "Brave VPN Service" and "Brave VPN Wireguard Service". You sound like you don't have it installed.
Just remember that Mozilla is a seperate entity to Firefox.
Yes it is a maxi pad absorbing all that Google money to ensure that firefox developers don't do anything Google doesn't like
Classic parasite Behavior
but librewolf is king
librewolf & tor browser combo is solid
Can't argue with that.
People miss the fact that we can tell when one of them make a questionable decision which is what matters the most.