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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by skilledtothegills to c/technology
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[–] _pete_ 29 points 2 years ago (19 children)

As a web developer the problem I have is there are issues with all the browsers that are available today:

  • Chrome and Edge are owned by big companies and report god-knows-what back to their motherships whilst constantly pushing their own services
  • Firefox uses its own rendering engine so it can have some Firefox specific bugs / differences that might be missed, plus doesn’t have support for some of the extensions that you want
  • Safari doesn’t have windows or extensions support
  • Opera is full of random features and promotional bumpf that I don’t care about and have to turn off
  • Vivaldi is a complicated beast that takes a bunch of work to set up, it also includes a mail client, calendar and feed reader in the browser which I don’t need.
  • DuckDuckGo doesn’t have any extension support at all
  • Arc is really fiddly and doesn’t always behave how I want it to (bookmarks behave like tabs for some reason)
  • Brave pulls things like this and is also full of crypto/wallet type stuff, plus you can’t even change your home page.

I just want a simple Chromium browser that doesn’t require me to turn a bunch of shit off, is private by default and supports extensions, I don’t think it’s too much to ask!

[–] g0nz0li0 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Arc has been pretty good for me so far. But the challenge will be at what point they stop stuffing it with new ideas, and will that be before it turns into a bloated mess. Edge is a great example of this.

[–] _pete_ 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yea, I really liked Edge when it was first launched, clean fast and simple. These days there is so much shoe-horning of Microsoft integrations it just feels like they’re desperately trying to steal all of your personal information

Arc could be amazing but there are some features which just don’t work as I would expect.

[–] g0nz0li0 1 points 2 years ago

It’s quirky, for sure. The easel feature isn’t at all integrated which I find odd.

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