I get Brave is still "chrome" I only use it on Android as most all android browsers suck or break in some way. On Linux (catchyos) I use https://zen-browser.app/
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Helium is my current choice.
Love the background writing.
Btw have you ever been to electric ladyland?
So I should remove brave?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#History might be worth a read
Wow I never really liked Brave, felt way too bloated, but this gives me reasons not to suggest it anymore.
Software doesn't exist silly, it's imaginary, like numbers.
But browsers are double fake.
Iβve used Firefox based browsers for as long as I can remember and Iβd rather slam my dick in a car door than switch to garbage like brave. Every single one of those browsers is the same bloated Google-flavoured bullshit wearing a different fucking clown costume. Firefox is the only browser that doesnβt make me feel like Iβm being rawdogged by corporate spyware every time I open a tab.. Piss on carpet !!
I only use palemoon because it uses the best version of Firefox.
i thlammed my penith in the car door
Yeah, I don't do web stuff, but I use the browser every day for all the microsoft stuff my employer uses and it's 99% LibreWolf and then 1% switching to Firefox ESR that cane preinstalled on debian.
If something didn't work at that point, I'd probably fire up my Windows VM I use for testing before I'd install even chromium. I've installed it before but there's just no need now.
I've been using Vanadium, the browser that came with GrapheneOS, recommendations?
I use ironfox with ublock origin, works nicely.
keep using that
Brave on GrapheneOS works great. Worth a download.
the only Chromium browser i use is CEF/Electron
Firefox or GTFO.
knave browser
What's the deal with Brave? Why are people against it?
They do a ton of sketchy shit. I was skeptical, but this article convinced me.
If you need to use a Chromium browser, there are a shit-ton that aren't Brave. I use Ungoogled Chromium.
Aside from the homophobia, Brave also runs an ad network so Iβm skeptical about their privacy claims.
Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google's dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.
Vigilink is the vendor they use to do this iirc. Link hijacking for referral revenue is wild thing to base a business on, but Iβve seen more sketch things running around the ad tech industry.
Brendan Eich. Specifically his stance against same sex marriage. He was pressured to resign from Mozilla, which he cofounded, due to his support of California's prop 8. Then he founded Brave. The Brave browser also has some annoying crypto and AI features turned on by default. I think it's a perfectly fine piece of software. I use it as a second browser.
It's impossible to be good at programming and morality at the same time.
That's why I never tried with either.
Their very shady history + their very bigoted owner + current shady tactics
Edit: and on top of that it's Chromium based
Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google's dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.
i'm not against it, i just don't believe it exists
im just gonna link this image the next time some uninformed dork asks me about this shit browser
that's allowed!
The only browser on my os is mothra all others don't exist.
Fuck brave browser, all my homies hate brave browser
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