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[–] tetranomos@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

qutebrowser ftw

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

I don't see any of this as legitimate reasons to stop using Brave.

  • yes the CEO donated $1k some 10 years ago to anti-LGBT stuff, and that's bad, but kinda small fries in the totality of factors.

  • ads. Firefox has ads and trackers just like Brave. You can disable them on either.

  • you can also disable crypto.

  • hijacking affiliate codes is unethical and should be stopped but don't actually affect me in any way.

What else ya got?

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[–] DriftingDeep@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Genuine question: I use brave currently. I really heavily on multiple profiles (work, side-business, personal) that are easy to switch between or have active all at the same time in separate windows.

I tried firefox, but in my experience, the method for changing “profiles” was unintuitive and cumbersome. Was I just doing it wrong, or does Firefox not have that same kind of feature?

I really wanna use Firefox, but that’s a deal-breaker.

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[–] paralyze@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Firefox + Brave Search.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I did too for a while. I've since switched to librex.

It's kinda like ten years ago google. It may use google as it's source for all I know. It does a pretty great job of stripping out SEO fluff.

Link to firefox plugin.

[–] Hailstorm8440@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only use brave for iOS because it is the best there is

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI every browser on iOS has to use webkit under the hood as per crapple's diktat, it's just a fork of safari like PC brave is a fork of chromium, eve Firefox on iOS uses webkit AFAIK

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[–] Slyme@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly, I only use it for when a site will not work in FFX-based browsers

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