Use LibreWolf instead. Fuck Brave.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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This is why I use Waterfox paired with DuckDuckGo tbh. Brave is a scummy company.
Brave sucks, lol, I use other browsers
Yet people keep recommending products by this scummy company and pile on Firefox for slightest missteps.
Mozilla should be scrutinized, even if Firefox is currently the best option.
I think the only thing keeping them inline is loud community backlash everytime they make one of those misssteps.
People dont seem to be scrutinizing though. Its genuinely unhinged and often completely misinformed. They will jump on a single line of a legal text and use it to springboard into a world of scenarios even when Mozilla is saying its not true.
It doesnt help improve the product it just makes people think all products are bad and fallback to whatever the comfortable majority is which is chrome.
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I think everyone should be held to the same standard. We can yell at Firefox a bit less. We should yell at Brave a lot more.
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They removed the paw, they are worse than Chrome! I'm going to use an alternative version that cannot exist without the main project to teach them a lesson!
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"Origin" is a peculiar choice for a version name. I wonder if they're trying to go off of the popularity of a common extension
There's no way people will actually pay for this, right? ... right?
Brave runs an ad network.
Brave has always been a joke. And Brave users will always be a joke. And anyone who’s ever simped for Brave will always be a moron.
Rude. But not inaccurate. Brave pretends to be better than Chrome and Google, but also Mozilla and Firefox at the same time, though Firefox has always done it better and has never contributed to the chromium monopoly. Greed over diversification of the Web and competition between browser engines to effect real change. The least Brave could do is make their own engine.
Rude. But not inaccurate.
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Firefox users stay winning. I love how mad some people are about Firefox.
I am not mad about Firefox. I am mad about Mozilla.
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I feel like if you're writing the sentence "an optional, paid version of our browser that offers Brave [...] without its extra features," you need to sit back and take a long, hard look at yourself.
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Awesome, monetization of enshittification.
Fuck that leaky browser. Asshole development.
The bad news is, if you're not on Team Tux, you're going to have to pay $60 for Brave Origin. Granted, you only need to buy it once, and you'll get unlimited activations across all of your devices.
It's amazing people still believe this BS.
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That’s a brave move.
Brave thinks its users are suckers
Its founder and CEO thinks that gay people shouldn't have rights, too.
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Brave lets people use Origin for free if they're on Linux
lol
Reminds me of a joke:
My dad always warned us about Septic Tank Steve, and that we should never pay him to do anything, and we should have listened. One day Steve came by and said if we gave him a nickel, he'd swim around in the septic tank. We thought that was hilarious, so we gave him a nickel, and he swam around the tank a while. Then he came and sat next to us on the porch and said "If you want me to leave, gimme $100."
Well, we'll toss him back in if he likes it so much. Maybe sell off the ladder if he really wants to stay :)
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