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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.

[–] sma3in 23 points 1 day ago

I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for

[–] kazerniel 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave 🤷 (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)

Edit: Oh yes, and the CEO's homophobia is not helping either...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Do you have a source for the edit, please?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Desperate much??

[–] [email protected] 203 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Brave? The browser that hides ads and substitutes their own? The one that keeps you private from Google AdSense so they can sell your data themselves? The one that keeps their Chromium build lean, so that you don’t notice the crypto miner running along side of it?

The fucking PayPal Honey of browsers? When the fuck did they ever look good? They’re like the “Banzai Buddy” of the HTML5 era

[–] sleepmode 41 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 388 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Forget the fox!"

... "Contains ads"

No, I don't think I will.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (11 children)

It's on Chromium so I will not use them

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not very professional.

It's not the 90s and they are not rivaling fast food chains.

[–] shotgun_crab 30 points 1 day ago

Forget the Lion

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.

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[–] [email protected] 225 points 2 days ago (43 children)

Contains Ads

I don't know why anyone ever installed Brave

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[–] PieMePlenty 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.

[–] teolan 30 points 1 day ago

Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.

Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Well, they threatened students for creating a fork. So yeah, they are dead to me

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

After installing Brave I was getting some kind of failed login popup in my GNOME desktop environment. Uninstalled it and the popup disappeared. It gave me the heeby jeebies about Brave.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it tries to use the keyring to store passwords every time you launch it even if you turned off password saving, the same applies to chrome and chromium browsers in general plus most password managers, tho not always. I tried to troubleshoot it, most forums online suggested to remove gnome key-rings if you are not using them but it kept reinstalling it. This plus brave being slower on mobile made me switch to firefox

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Ungoogled Chromium flatpak

[–] MaXsteri 11 points 1 day ago

I've been using Vivaldi

[–] kazerniel 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

need a Chromium browser for technical reasons

With a similar use case, after messing around with Brave, then Ungoogled Chromium for a few years, I just reinstalled Google Chrome last month. I literally only need it for making sure webdesign stuff I do works okay in Chrome, and for the extremely rare websites I come across that refuses to work in Firefox 🤷 I didn't change any settings or install even an adblocker, to make sure I'm testing as close to the "vanilla" experience as possible. I also don't log into any accounts with it, so I don't really care if Google sees what I do for that 2-3 page visits / month.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Secureblue's Trivalent browser looks promising. Currently the only way to install it outside of secureblue is COPR on Fedora, but I'm sure there will soon be packages in the AUR, Gentoo, Nix, etc.

Other good options are Cromite, Thorium and Ungoogled Chromium

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have been using Brave for the last year and I did like it as a mobile browser. But today I noticed that when I was searching about abortion and etopic pregnancy (fact checking a really dumb article) that all of a sudden their AI crap was throwing "no results available" errors. I checked some other left leaning topics and sure enough it no longer gives you AI results. So I immediately uninstalled that shit from my phone because fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is not having AI results really a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago

Not at all. I never wanted to see AI and it kept turning itself back on this was just the final push for me to uninstall it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it's more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fuck Brave, it's based on Chromium and contains crypto BS.

[–] Agent641 44 points 2 days ago

"Fire the Fox" would have been a better slogan

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 days ago

Brave has never had a good look.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] HexesofVexes 6 points 1 day ago

One feels there is an allegory for "too stupid to be afraid" buried in here.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago

"Was getting tired Brave, and noticed they mentioned Firefox in their ads. Was curious what that was and upon launching Firefox, immediately I felt something, my disappointment is no longer immeasurable, and my day is no longer ruined!"

brave = 0/5 🤮

Firefox = 6/5 😎

[–] nyctre 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Guess you're outside the EU or something? Cause it looks different over here, Firefox isn't mentioned here. Also they're at 4.9 instead of 4.7 for some reason. Either way, fuck brave.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

I ditched this crap years ago. Fuck this Trojan horse.

[–] timewarp 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

The same Brave founded by the anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI CEO that doesn't believe that gay people should have the same rights as straight people? Color me shocked!

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (13 children)

It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Android app person here. They used that title in an A/B test to see if it would help them get more installs for when people searched "Firefox". That is why 1. They picked the words "fire" and "fox", and 2. Why you're not seeing it.

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