Seriously.
    • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Especially when there is Firefox and Firefox-based, privacy-focused alternative with great add-blocking and privacy extensions.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      0·
      10 months ago

      I use firefox as my main but have brave as my chromium/PWA browser because I don’t really fancy using edge or chrome

      What other browsers out there support PWAs that are less spyware-ey than the big names

            • whou@lemmy.mlOP
              1·
              10 months ago

              test my own PWA of websites I’m developing

              changing browsers or keeping both open breaks the workflow and sucks. and it’s pretty damn slow for me too

            • flashgnash@lemm.ee
              1·
              10 months ago

              There’s sometimes desktop functionality like saving music on yt music

              Also having them in their own window/their own shortcut is pretty handy and firefox doesn’t support shortcuts either nowqdays

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It’s because he donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California’s state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

    Which is all the reason I need.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      If he had changed his tune since then and done something to offset that, I might be willing to cut him some slack.

      But, instead, he seems to have doubled down…

  • Gsus4@feddit.nl
    5·
    10 months ago

    The moment my cryptofan buddy started talking up brave, I knew it was time to uninstall.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I don’t use Brave, won’t use Brave, and have my reasons for it.

    • Brave is Chromium based; a project which is slave to the whim of Google.
    • Brave integrates an unnecessary cryptocurrency.
    I hate shitcoins

    I don’t trust small crypto projects, and I doubly do not want this to be integrated into my browser. It’s a good way to lose your stable crypto-holdings if you have them. (I don’t; but I’ve seen lots of anecdotes about catching malware that subsequently stole their crypto wallets, including any BAT tokens they owned)

    • Brave does not block ads! It does not ‘enhance’ your privacy. It just absorbs some ads, replaces some, and blatantly lets first-party advertisements through the filter. That’s not ad-blocking
    • Brave does not protect your privacy. As per my previous point; it does not block ads, it injects it’s own right into browser chrome! That’s worse than plain Chrome! Your privacy is automatically violated when you watch/view even a single ad.
    • Brave does not have many benefits above “Ungoogled Chromium” or other competing projects. It just doesn’t. Unless you like marketing fluff.
    • Brave is NOT BETTER THAN Firefox. It’s worse; because it’s Chromium; which is enslaved to Google whims. Don’t believe me? Try to contribute something to Chromium that goes contrary to Google’s stated goals and watch how fast you get shot down.
    But sometimes...

    Yes, Sometimes a programmer does succeed. But only sometimes; and this is usually because they have the clout, coding skills, chops and public reach to embarrass the fuck out of the Google PMs. This will never be you, unless you put an extraordinary amount of effort into becoming a very well known and respected contributor in the OSS space. If you already are a respected contributor in the OSS space, Congrats! You’re still likely to be forced to fight a long and protracted battle against the Google nerds to get “Google-Hostile” code changes approved.

    • El_Rocha@lm.put.tf
      4·
      10 months ago

      Your last point is laughable.

      Yes Brave cannot make commits to Chromium, but it makes changes to their own repos (well, obviously) and can also accept/reject changes Google makes to Chromium.

      In my opinion, Firefox is more of a slave to Google than Brave will ever be because they rely entirely on Google giving them money for the default search engine.

      Is Brave’s revenue model scammy? Maybe. But at least they aren’t Google little bitch.

      • dalingrin@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        I don’t know how you can follow web development and say Mozilla is a slave to Google. They go against nearly everything Google proposes. I get it that Mozilla makes money off of Google but in practice they are anything but slaves.

        • GraveDancer@lemmy.ml
          5·
          10 months ago

          https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml

          I find nothing morally or ethically superior to Mozilla vs Google. Nothing. As for the browsers, I’ll admit I have kept Firefox and ditched Chrome, as I suspect (cannot prove) the former might be a tad less invasive than the latter. I rarely use it now that I have Waterfox. That said I do use Comodo IceDragon, Epic Privacy Browser and Brave…I assume all based on Chromium/Chrome. I’d guess Brave is the most up-to-date browser for Windows 7. It works well when various sites flip the birdie to the other browsers, so I use it.

        • El_Rocha@lm.put.tf
          3·
          10 months ago

          They can do whatever they want, they only do it because Google allows it.

          By that logic, Brave is also completely against Google because they block their ads and go against them.

    • whou@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      Torch Browser is not open source, and it still is based on chromium. It’s the worst browser combination possible.

      Falkon is pretty cool! I prefer using qutebrowser if it’s gonna use QtWebEngine anyway. It is slower and less featureful than the main browsers, though. If you don’t mind it, I’d say go for it!

      I didn’t know about Dot Browser, but it looks… unfinished? It’s based on Firefox, so that’s cool. But it seems someone would be better off just using something like LibreWolf (or Tor if you actually want some privacy).

  • sculd@beehaw.org
    2·
    10 months ago

    I used to think Brave was good until I found out they are into crypto.

    Nope Nope and Nope! Not using that thing again. Firefox is my friend now.

  • RobotToaster@infosec.pub
    2·
    10 months ago

    Isn’t this like the fourth time this has been posted? the conversation always goes around in circles with nobody changing their mind.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Now it makes sense why some of the Fox News-parroting, right wing people I know use Brave. I had no idea about what the author mentioned about the browser, I just know it is based on Chromium which I will not use. Thus, I am on Firefox. And for many reasons, including those the author laid out, I’m happy I chose wisely.

  • Twashe@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    This is madness. How does this keep getting upvoted when the article has nothing to do with the actual code integrity and functionality of this browser.

    At least it’s open source, if there is something shady point it out in the code.

  • regalia@literature.cafe
    2·
    10 months ago

    It should’ve been as simple as stop using any chromium-based browser, but the CEO is also super bigoted, doing ad theft, and pushing crypto scams.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Very strongly worded, but yes.

    Brave have had a history of controversy since their inception. Every time something happens, the CEO went on a marketing campaign across social media and drummed up enough new users to drown it out. However the attitude of the business is clear: it would take a very small sack of money for Brave to sell out its users.

    If you’re going to use a Chromium web browser, there are non-commercial open source projects that don’t have a history of shady shit. However Firefox forks are better.

  • Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I’m personally like to stop using Brave, and I will, however while LibreWolf will be what I’ll switch to on desktop, I’m not sure what I would want to switch to on my Android phone. I see that LibreWolf doesn’t have an Android version (and potentially never will; fine, developers will do whatever they want). I’ve heard about IceRaven, however, I’m not sure how good it is. Also would like an actually privacy focused search engine, but I think LibreWolf might have a good list on that front.

    (Note: please do suggest in replies, not sure I made that apparent)

    • RustyOperator@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Check out Mull or Mulch. Mull is a more private Firefox and Mulch is a more private Chrome. They are made by the DivestOS team, they also make DivestOS which is a lot more private Android version that supports a huge number of phones. That’s how I’m also runing the latest version of Android 13 with the latest security updates on a phone from 2019. And there are much older devices supported.

      • Cass.Forest@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Since I’ll be moving to LibreWolf and it’s based on FF, I’ll check out Mull. Unfortunately I don’t see my device on DivestOS’s site (it’s a Motorola Moto G Power 2022), but it’s also quite new so it’s understandable. I’ll switch it to Lineage or something like that whenever it gets support for it but I’m fine with a degoogled Android for now.