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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman to c/technology

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[–] Ibaudia 87 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The fact that its main 2 gimmicks are a shitty ad blocker and integrated cryptocurrency should be enough of a red flag, honestly. Just use Firefox, people!

[–] SMITHandWESSON 6 points 1 year ago

I downloaded it just yesterday, and I uninstalled it after reading this article. Back to Firefox for me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using Brave on iOS mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

[–] Ibaudia 1 points 1 year ago

If you want to swap teams, Android has Revanced. Otherwise I don't think so.

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

Firefox doesn't block ads on my iPad. Only reason I still use brave

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe that's because it's not really Firefox, everything on apple devices is forced to use safari, all you do with the "Firefox" installation is change the ui.

[–] LukeMedia 1 points 1 year ago

You are not wrong, no correction needed. However, their "Firefox Go" browser blocks ads, so it's a little annoying that the full browser doesn't. I only really use brave for YouTube on it anyway. Firefox I still use for normal browsing there and everywhere else.

[–] Ibaudia 1 points 1 year ago

You can install add-ons, at least on the android version. One of them is Ublock!

[–] Arthur_Leywin 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is significantly slower though...

[–] Ibaudia -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really that significant when you're using it, I promise. I'm usually all for speed, but FF has better functionality than the competition.

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

Speed is significant though. "Functionality" (whatever you mean by that) is less important.

[–] Ibaudia 1 points 1 year ago

Built-in features are much better, respects privacy (compared to Google), add-ons have more possibilities, etc.