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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 1 year ago by whou@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm personally like to stop using Brave, and I will, however while LibreWolf will be what I'll switch to on desktop, I'm not sure what I would want to switch to on my Android phone. I see that LibreWolf doesn't have an Android version (and potentially never will; fine, developers will do whatever they want). I've heard about IceRaven, however, I'm not sure how good it is. Also would like an actually privacy focused search engine, but I think LibreWolf might have a good list on that front.

(Note: please do suggest in replies, not sure I made that apparent)

[–] RustyOperator@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Check out Mull or Mulch. Mull is a more private Firefox and Mulch is a more private Chrome. They are made by the DivestOS team, they also make DivestOS which is a lot more private Android version that supports a huge number of phones. That's how I'm also runing the latest version of Android 13 with the latest security updates on a phone from 2019. And there are much older devices supported.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Since I'll be moving to LibreWolf and it's based on FF, I'll check out Mull. Unfortunately I don't see my device on DivestOS's site (it's a Motorola Moto G Power 2022), but it's also quite new so it's understandable. I'll switch it to Lineage or something like that whenever it gets support for it but I'm fine with a degoogled Android for now.

[–] lostwonder@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you think about Torch Browser? Falkon? Dot browser?

[–] whou@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Torch Browser is not open source, and it still is based on chromium. It's the worst browser combination possible.

Falkon is pretty cool! I prefer using qutebrowser if it's gonna use QtWebEngine anyway. It is slower and less featureful than the main browsers, though. If you don't mind it, I'd say go for it!

I didn't know about Dot Browser, but it looks... unfinished? It's based on Firefox, so that's cool. But it seems someone would be better off just using something like LibreWolf (or Tor if you actually want some privacy).

[–] emhl@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Are there any brave forks that throw out all the bullshit? Bold browser seems pretty dead

[–] Twashe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is madness. How does this keep getting upvoted when the article has nothing to do with the actual code integrity and functionality of this browser.

At least it's open source, if there is something shady point it out in the code.

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