Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave ๐คท (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...
Do you have a source for the edit, please?
(...) anger over his $1,000 (ยฃ600) donation in 2008 to support Californian anti-gay marriage laws bubbled over when he was appointed chief executive.
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I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for
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 donโt notice the crypto miner running along side of it?
The fucking PayPal Honey of browsers? When the fuck did they ever look good? Theyโre like the โBanzai Buddyโ of the HTML5 era
They managed to piss off Tom Scott.
A thing I had not previously considered was possible.
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Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.
Not very professional.
It's not the 90s and they are not rivaling fast food chains.
Desperate much??
Brave? You mean "browser for bigots"?
Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.
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Forget the Lion
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.
Is not having AI results really a bad thing?
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.
I'm guessing it's more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed
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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.
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.
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)
Well, they threatened students for creating a fork. So yeah, they are dead to me
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Fuck Brave, it's based on Chromium and contains crypto BS.
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.
Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.
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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Brave has never had a good look.
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?
"Fire the Fox" would have been a better slogan
"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 ๐คฎ
Firefox = 6/5 ๐
used brave for like a year, saved up however much in their stupid coin and when i went to get it, my browser reset how many ads i saw.
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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It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.
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I ditched this crap years ago. Fuck this Trojan horse.
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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One feels there is an allegory for "too stupid to be afraid" buried in here.
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.
Broke one of the golden rules of advertising (at least the advertising lessons I learned from an old advertising guy I knew a long time ago)
Never mention your competition in your advertising .... because every time you do, you've given them free advertising.
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