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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Except for being on a Chromium base, I appreciate that Brave isn't sneakily turning into Chrome 2.0 like a well-known Fox is.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It might be worth setting up a seperate Chromium extension store independent from Google

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Or even better, write userscripts that can be used anywhere instead of inside some non portable extensions framework

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not a crypto hater but... I used Brave for like a year or two. My mind almost melted from constantly closing ads for crypto business/scams. I made about $30 overall. Not worth it. Switched back to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Its my main driver. I just don't use their ads / crypto features. You can opt out ya know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You know you can choose the number of ads served per hour? You can even just turn it off...

I exchanged some BAT to bitcoin. Since then it 4x'd... Not too bad :)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not using Brave and I don't like it. Personnaly if you're on desktop or laptop just use Firefox (Waterfox for soft-privacy browser, Librewolf and Mullvad for better one). Brave is firstly based on chromium, have a relation with crypto. Not my browser of choice and will never recommend it to anyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not using brave and I don't like it.

You don't like the fact that your not using brave?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

😂 no no the browser 😂

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't use Brave, but I did read that post because I am interested in how they are handling this. It's worth reading for that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fuck brave, built on chromium

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

CEO is a homophobic shithead. Even if "politics" have nothing to do with the quality of software (I dont think donating to legislatures to block gay marriage is a case of "having a different political opinion"), people who care that much about how other people live their lives should NOT be trusted for a privacy respecting browser. The browser is decent, but it is stained by his presense, contributes to the chromium monoculture, and is filled with crypto bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck all CEOs. Stop giving them platforms & celebrity where they get to be the symbol of products/services—which discounts all the labor done into something by the real folks building & making decisions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I do agree with this. I dont want to discount Brave (just) because of their CEO. Fuck CEOs. Brave has done some iffy things in the past, but their Chromium patches are general decent for privacy.

Ramblings about Firefox
Firefox resistFingerprinting does more to preserve user privacy (through normalizing of many metrics) and allow for the possibility of a crowd of fingerprint-identical users, the only legitimate way to protect against advanced deanonimizing scripts. Maybe if Mozilla enshittification of Firefox makes a worse, unfixable, and inferior product to Chromium, these patches could lay groundwork for more thorough protections. The reason we have strong protections in Firefox is because of upstreamed code from the Tor Uplift Project, with their code designed for a stricter threat model (in my opinion) than what Brave intends (aka out of scope).