• gurty@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 minutes ago

    I love using Brave browser… swipes away crypto ad banner …because there is a massive focus… swipes away crypto ad banner …on privacy….

    • pmjv@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      3 hours ago

      there’s no other real browser on ios, everything is just a gui reskin of safari. afaik there’s no benefit to using anything else.

      • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
        3·
        48 minutes ago

        Kinda true. On iOS all browsers have to use the safari core as browser engine, but you still get the Firefox layer on top, most importantly account sync.
        Like if I’m on the toilet, see an article I wanna read on lemmy, but it has too many ads, I just send the tab to my PC and read it later. Also bookmark syncing comes in very handy for me.

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
    743·
    15 hours ago

    I’ve used Firefox based browsers for as long as I can remember and I’d rather slam my dick in a car door than switch to garbage like brave. Every single one of those browsers is the same bloated Google-flavoured bullshit wearing a different fucking clown costume. Firefox is the only browser that doesn’t make me feel like I’m being rawdogged by corporate spyware every time I open a tab… Piss on carpet !!

    • Zink@programming.dev
      4·
      14 hours ago

      Yeah, I don’t do web stuff, but I use the browser every day for all the microsoft stuff my employer uses and it’s 99% LibreWolf and then 1% switching to Firefox ESR that cane preinstalled on debian.

      If something didn’t work at that point, I’d probably fire up my Windows VM I use for testing before I’d install even chromium. I’ve installed it before but there’s just no need now.

    • rounding_error@lemmy.today
      6·
      10 hours ago

      I have brave on Ios and if I’m correct it’s just using Apple’s safari webkit anyways. It’s been a few years since I compared browsers but back then it was the least shit, including firefox and firefox private.

    • yyyesss?@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 hours ago

      is this the one that requires you to log in? i tried one that looks just like that and i loved the design but forced sign-in is a deal breaker for me. how private can it be if it demands to know who i am?

    • deathbird@mander.xyz
      31·
      5 hours ago

      The guy who made it has bad beliefs. It’s good software from what I can tell, and free as in speech and free as in beer, but if you use it you get his bad bigot cooties. You have to use free software by certified free range organic non-bigots or it rubs off on you I guess.

      • ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Okay that gave me a good chuckle. But really with FOSS software it’s important to be aware of biases the developers might have. Sure if it’s an open source project, in theory I can audit the code but realistically not so much. If the lead developer is a known bad actor, then there’s reason to be paranoid about vulnerabilities or backdoors being injected into the codebase.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      11 hours ago

      They do a ton of sketchy shit. I was skeptical, but this article convinced me.

      If you need to use a Chromium browser, there are a shit-ton that aren’t Brave. I use Ungoogled Chromium.

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
      45·
      15 hours ago

      Aside from the homophobia, Brave also runs an ad network so I’m skeptical about their privacy claims.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      264·
      14 hours ago

      Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google’s dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Vigilink is the vendor they use to do this iirc. Link hijacking for referral revenue is wild thing to base a business on, but I’ve seen more sketch things running around the ad tech industry.

    • prunerye@slrpnk.net
      318·
      14 hours ago

      Brendan Eich. Specifically his stance against same sex marriage. He was pressured to resign from Mozilla, which he cofounded, due to his support of California’s prop 8. Then he founded Brave. The Brave browser also has some annoying crypto and AI features turned on by default. I think it’s a perfectly fine piece of software. I use it as a second browser.

      • jdr@lemmy.ml
        63·
        12 hours ago

        It’s impossible to be good at programming and morality at the same time.

        That’s why I never tried with either.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
      231·
      15 hours ago

      Their very shady history + their very bigoted owner + current shady tactics

      Edit: and on top of that it’s Chromium based

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      121·
      14 hours ago

      Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google’s dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    571·
    20 hours ago

    I don’t understand. Why does Brave not exist? Is it because the developer is a chud? Fair enough. Is it because it’s Chrome? If so, does that apply to Vivaldi?

      • Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        303·
        19 hours ago

        Can somebody explain something stupid to me? What exactly is wrong with Chromium? Does Google have backdoor access to anyone who’s running a Chromium based program or something?

        • grue@lemmy.world
          27·
          14 hours ago

          What exactly is wrong with Chromium?

          It gives Google hegemony over web standards.

        • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1371·
          19 hours ago

          They abuse the fuck out of their monopoly, basically.

          They made changes to limit the usefulness of adblockers (Manifest V3), they tried to force a remote attestation API (WEI API) a few years back that would let them do stuff like fully block users who aren’t running locked-down operating systems from using online banking software or accessing Youtube, they added many chrome-specific web APIs that are extremely helpful for fingerprinting and lock users into the chrome ecosystem, etc.

          And if you’re running stock chromium, there’s a fuckton of telemetry calling home to Google servers constantly.

        • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          781·
          19 hours ago

          As a web dev I hate the trend of websites relying on chromium-specific quirks, there are a handful of sites I need to use which refuse to work in any non-chromium browser, and customer support will always tell you to just use chrome as if you’re not a normal person for using Firefox. So yeah what’s wrong with chromium to me is that it’s the new internet explorer when it comes to web standards. Websites and large businesses can afford to just not care if they are following web standards as long as it works in chrome, and if you have a problem it’s your fault for not using chrome.

          • almost1337@lemmy.zip
            20·
            15 hours ago

            Yeah, we’re back to the days of websites only supporting Internet Explorer because of proprietary features and weird quirks.

          • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
            218·
            15 hours ago

            This is why I switched from LibreWolf. If I had to have a Chromium browser installed as a backup anyway for few important sites, I might as well use Chromium. Imo Chromium has won. It owns the web landscape. I’ve given up

            • Lemmayng@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              13 hours ago

              Why don’t you at least use Ungoogled Chromium, Cromite, or Helium Browser? At least they prioritize security and privacy equally while not being tied to Ghoulgle.

        • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
          12·
          12 hours ago

          which you can get on any Chromium based browser, brave is nothing special in that regard. you can have functioning adblock with Vivaldi also.