I use brave as it really blocks the things from foking meta, and goo gel, even if i think javascript is a warcrime against human kind, and against IT, and its created by eich
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If I want to keep a chrome-based browser, what is a decent (in terms of privacy intrusion and adblocking) one to use? Is Vivaldi a reasonable choice as a replacement of Brave?
I use Firefox on desktop but on Android i use Brave for one single reason: it lets me open links in the full browser rather than a webview. Or whatever that tech is called. I hate that stuff. It drives me absolutely bonkers. Like, you might think that's irrational and/or that i have some kind of anger management problem but i promise you it is way beyond that. I'm fucking actually feral about this. This one thing determines which browser i use. If i couldn't find one with it i would have to start uninstalling apps that don't let me force full external browsers.
Firefox used to allow you to force this setting but at some point stopped. I don't know why. Give it back, please. (Along with full desktop extensions...)
Anyway if anyone knows how to change this i would be happy.
Following his reasoning, the author should also avoid JavaScript at all cost then. Good luck with that!
Just to play devils advocate, while I do agree that there are some shady stuff happening, if the browser remains open source that wouldn't be a problem right? These "features" while present can be disabled by the end user, either within the settings menu or by adjusting in the configs page.
Brave is great and i will continue to use it.
I just left the following comment on the article:
So, just to recap, don't use Brave Browser because:
Its CEO & a shareholder hold right-wing political views
It pays users (who opt-in) crypto (whereas other browsers pay users nothing)
It has an ad model (that you neglect to mention also pays users crypto for viewing ads)
It once allowed users with (pre-existing) FTX accounts to link them via a widget
It partners with Gemini (to allow users to offload/exchange the BAT they've earned, not mentioned)
Gemini has an SEC case (part of the SECs crypto witch hunt which includes a failed case vs XRP)
Crypto(dot)com faced layoffs during a bear market
And the first ever Web3 gaming expo had low attendance?
Your arguments are truly weak. I don't even use Brave as my main Browser, but I'll likely be using it more often now literally because this article annoyed me that much. Also FWIW I'm a liberal and member of the LGBTQ+ community, I detest that Eich would donate to prop 8 but I also respect that we live in a country where people will have vast political differences and still be able to see past those things and interact without demonizing and trying to cancel each other.
As for that ad replacement model they abandoned, I can kinda see what the thinking was there: The browser is going to block site's ads regardless, and the browser is going to show its own ads to users who opt into earning BAT for viewing ads regardless. So why not combine those things and replace site's ads with Brave's ads? I can see how they would have been high fiving in the office thinking that was a win/win until the problems were loudly and angrily pointed out to them by others.
In any event Brave serves a niche market segment that no one else is focusing on at the moment, problematic politics of some executives aside, that's a thing that'll have legs so long as no competition (with perhaps better exec political leanings) rises to challenge them.
Just my 2 pesos, don't kill me.
Right we shouldn't use brave because CEO donated $1000 to some law author doesn't like. Maybe we should leave lemmy too because creators believe in things most other people don't like. These kind of morality plays are stupid, who knows what every devs and ceo of company actually think and do with their money and honestly if it's legal who cares.
I just read it all and I don't entirely agree with all the reasons that the writer stated to not use brave (the CEO donating to ban same-sex marriage and the idea of BAT in itself I find interesting and I like but I ended up disabling it because I got nothing from it and I read somewhere how they were taking the donations that people made to the creators that do not have BAT or know about it without telling the users) but let's say he got me to question whether I would recommend Brave anymore, either way with what Google is doing right now I'm recommending Firefox to everyone I know whenever I can for the cause
I can't think of a reason why anyone would use a browser other than Firefox and its forks.