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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by whou@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

from the article...

Ultimately, Brave Browser is the apparatus of an advertising company, a bloated and complicated experience for the average user, and the pet project of the person kicked out of Mozilla for continuing to defend harmful political donations. If you want a privacy-focused web browser, use Firefox or Vivaldi. If you want to support your favorite content creators and publishers, turn on advertisements or support them through the methods they already support (Patreon, Ko-Fi, and so on). Brave Browser is irredeemable, and you should not use it under any circumstances.

I don't use brave and I am not interested in using it, so YMMV.

[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because it’s shit

All those i figured

and the pet project of the person kicked out of Mozilla for continuing to defend harmful political donations

This one is interesting to me because it begins to explains why it has the same terrible clipart lions head logo as a bunch of deadend political parties, groups, and candidates. It seems pretty obvious now

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Everyone who I've ever seen talk about using Brave has been a chud, so I always thought it was sus.

[–] cloudless@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is Vivaldi good for privacy? It is closed-source and I don't understand its business model.

[–] think1984@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Not according to PrivacyTests.org. It lacks a lot of state partitioning, amongst other things. Just FYI, the front end UI is closed source, but the backend/engine is open source, because they're just another chromium spin off.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

exactly, there's a lot of trust involved in using Vivaldi. I don't know why someone recommends it over Brave in the name of privacy.