I'm fairly certain that I was not the only person in the world who thought to himself, "Did they just yoink the entire Internet and bundle it together
  • Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Every single one of these Brave “scandals” are so irrelevant and meaningless. I was hoping the reddit hive mind wouldn’t be brought over to lemmy, but here we are.

    This article, especially after the update from Brave, seems like a huge nothing-burger. Just another excuse for the Firefox Fanatics crowd to rag on Brave and circlejerk each other about how good Firefox is.

    The article isn’t even about Brave Browser, and it has nothing to do with user data. The website owner is mad that Brave Search is crawling their site and using data in their “Summarizer” feature. I thought Firefox users were supposed to be against the Google internet monopoly, but apparently when it comes to one of the only companies with their own independent and actually decent search engine, they don’t seem to care anymore because of stupid “Firefox good brave bad” browser wars nonsense.

  • brb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I never understood why anyone would use Brave, the payouts are small, the utility of the crypto is zero, and watching/seeing adverts is a nightmare. I honestly believe that blocking all advertising and sending a small monetary amount to someone providing value is a better way of supporting the people you care about.

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Their crypto autofill scandal is all one needs to know about this company. If you’re marketing your browser as privacy focused and then pull stunts like that you lose all credibility in my eyes. Forever.

    Firefox or go bust

    • Nyaa@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Not to mention the interesting bits of info you can find just by looking into the CEO of Brave, Brendan Eich. Plenty of reasons with him alone for someone to avoid the browser and search engine.

      The big one that he likes to keep buried is that he donated money to an anti-gay marriage proposition in California back in 2011, which is what caused some of the pressure for him to step down as Mozilla CEO back in 2014 after being it for a few weeks.

  • SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone recommend a good alternative that works well under Linux and block ads and trackers well? In particular YouTube ads?

  • sherlockandghibli@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i still don’t get why there aren’t more firefox based browsers, i’m on librewolf, but there aren’t as many firefox based alternatives, as there are for chromium. why ?

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I actually use 5 different browsers:

      • Brave for work (need Chromium/Workspace integrations)
      • Mullvad for most things not work
      • LibreWolf simply because Mullvad can’t be set as default
      • Ferdium for convenient containers for sites I am regularly logged into
      • Tor for “sensitive” browsing
      • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ferdium Are you saying Ferdium runs sites in isolated containers so it won’t recognize when I’m logged into another app via cookies?

  • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So glad Puffin killed itself… Why does everything good have to go away?

  • NausetJF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I never liked Brave. I don’t care for the crypto crap they add onto their browser

  • gareins@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why is everyone mixing search engines and browsers here? This is specifically about the search engine and the problems that api of the search engine has with respecting copyright laws. I use their search engine and dont use their browser