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Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted (www.techspot.com)
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[–] KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 4 points 20 minutes ago

Gonna call it now: that 60 quid 'one time' purchase is not gonna be the end of it.

In, at most, a couple of years, one of these things will happen:

  • the model will be switched to a monthly subscription
  • features will be cut and sold separately
  • 'limited, non-targeted' ads 'from trusted partners' will be introduced
  • the thing will be buried completely because it's not financially viable
[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 minutes ago

Unless you absolutely want to contribute to the chromium monopoly, Firefox is right there and still free. If you're concerned about the telemetry, LibreWolf is worth looking at.

[–] KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org 18 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, but I'll just stick to Firefox

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago

Good news for me! I don't have to pay since I don't use brave at all. Yay me!

[–] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 26 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh shit. Someone finally called my "I'd pay not to have to use AI" bluff.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 hour ago

Brave, and Brandon Eck are shit anyway, with or without AI.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

Huh, funnily enough, Ive introduced my own $60 fee if they want me to read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy agreements that come along with their browser.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 4 points 1 hour ago

Brave is something I never wanted in the first place.

[–] mracton@piefed.social 1 points 40 minutes ago

You can go into the settings and manually disable (nearly?) all the features that are removed in the paid version without paying anything. That’s what I did. They aren’t paywalling the ability disable the features.

It doesn’t matter to me whether someone uses Brave or not, but the headline is misleading, though pedantically accurate.

[–] turtl@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Honestly I don't hate that at all

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If you really want to use a chromium-based browser, Vivaldi does all this and for free. It's not bad, definitely a bit faster than firefox but that's the nature of the beast for the web these days. I also like having my tabs on the side rather than the top. I think you can do that with Firefox via an extension, I'll have to play around. But I much prefer using Firefox in my daily life

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Vertical tabs is a built in function of FF. I think you just right click on a tab and there's an option on the context menu to switch maybe?