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Differences please?
Building a browser is hard, and it's even harder when one of the maker of the most popular browser also operates several of the most popular websites. So most other browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, and many more) are Chromium under the hood. This means that they often implement Google's preferred web functionality as opposed to the actual standard. If Google wants some feature going into the browser, most Chromium derivatives will follow their lead. Even though Brave has rejected many of Google's moves, I'd argue it still isn't enough since they still give Google some control over web standards.
The Internet needs to be impartial and fair in its design, this means it shouldn't be influenced by any one interest in particular. Google's indirect influence over nearly the whole browser market goes against the principle of an open web. The only way to fight effectively this is to use an independent browser, like Firefox.
well chrome = basically chromium So basically all changes from chrome carry over to chromium - and subsequently chromium-based browsers like brave opera edge etc
Brave's and Vivaldi's adblockers are not extensions, so they won't be affected by MV3.
but youre still supporting something built from chromium, meaning youre still supporting google
If this helps the demise of the useless, cash-grabbing Mozilla, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to do.
or you could get a safer, more private fork of firefox that comes with every useless mozilla "feature" removed
also, mozilla is smaller and way less bad than google, so it would still be better to support that and not google
https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
The CEO of brave is a hateful bigot.
That's a shitty argument. I like the browser, not the CEO. Should I also ask my grocery store owner his political views before buying from him?
It's just art. You can't blame me for not knowing anything about who this "A. Hitler" is supposed to be. Do I have to ask my swastika tattooed art dealer about his political views before buying from him?