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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by skilledtothegills to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 158 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I use Firefox over Brave simply because I have much more trust that Mozilla won’t suddenly turn into dicks.

(Also because Firefox is awesome now, and because competition in the browser world is a good thing, but it’s mainly the probably-not-being-dicks thing)

[–] jeffw 84 points 1 year ago

I got downvoted to shit on Reddit for saying stuff like this (on the weirdly frequent posts about how great Brave is)

Ig I’ve found my people now

[–] Onlytanner 36 points 1 year ago

Firefox has been super good for me as well. I switched from Chrome a few years ago and initially had the occasional issue, but thinking about it now I can't recall the last time I had an issue with Firefox that forced me to use another browser.

[–] messem10 11 points 1 year ago

Not that Mozilla has been 100% great either. Remember the Mr. Robot debacle?

If not: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass

[+] kroy -22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox. The slowest browser, the least compatible browser, the most annoying when it comes to bugs and issues (Firefox snap anyone?)

I just cannot disagree more. You seriously have to gaslight yourself into liking it.

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

What a strange take. I switched from Opera to Firefox like 15+ years ago (whenever Firefox added extensions, so I could use Mouse Gestures (why I was on Opera in the first place))

I never have issues with compatibility or speed. I don’t use Google products so I don’t have Chrome to compare it to, but it’s certainly as fast as/faster an IE/Edge.

[–] orphiebaby 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox has been my browser for eons, but I admit I think Edge is faster. It doesn't matter to me in the end though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Edge feels like the same speed to me, but our household has monster computers!

[–] weirdwallace75 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edge is Chrome.

[–] orphiebaby 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Chromium, which is not the same. But I get your point.

[–] weirdwallace75 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, there is a difference, but it's minor and big stuff, like adblocking not working as well, are true of Chrome and Chromium.

[–] orphiebaby 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wow, that is quite a presumption there. Every couple years I try Chrome again and I am done with it in a few hours. The thing is archaic and its interface uncustomizable. And the only reason it could maybe have more compatibility is because of its market share and peoples' bias towards it. There was once a time over ten years ago when it was good, but it's not anymore. Not to mention the privacy issues.

Firefox has been my browser for 10 years or longer.

[–] kroy -1 points 1 year ago

To each their own.

Every couple of years I try firefox, and it doesn't take me long to be disappointed. Usually just some random incoherent firefox incompatibility with a major feature like logging in on a site or something.