Brave fork without crypto crap?
Brave fork without crypto crap?
I have been thinking about switching to brave for better fingerprinting protection
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So Chromium?
Just use Firefox, its the better browser anyways.
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Brave might have started as a basic Chromium fork, but the various privacy/security features they added do make them standout now.
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But they still contribute to google's monopoly over web standards.
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It is really disingenuous to say "X is just a skin of Y" just because they share the same browser engine or are forked from the same browser. Like you say, there are a lot of changes.
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Aye Firefox gang 🦊🤘
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I already use Firefox but brave is just better at fingerprinting protection
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There's CanvasBlocker for Firefox that can do fingerprint protection.
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Why not use Librewolf? Fork of Firefox, hardened and resists fingerprinting. Scores pretty damn well on https://privacytests.org and pairs well with Mull on Android.
AFAIK there are no actively developed Brave forks.
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I use librewolf on my work laptop it removes all cookies every time you close it, this wouldn't be a problem on mobile as I already set my phone browser(fennec) to do that but on my personal computer it crosses the border from I can deal with it to too inconvenient
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You can turn that off in the settings
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And there won't be because brave doesn't like it when someone forks the browser.
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Firefox. Or if you don't want to spend time configuring it, Librewolf.
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I also recommend Librewolf. It's very good at what it does. They also have a list of recommended addons to enhance your privacy.
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The only issue with librewolf is that updates sometimes take a few days. For that reason I’m still using ff+arkenfox
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All of the crypo crap can be turned off in settings.
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And the setting really does work. The crap is completely gone afterwards. There is no grayed out symbols, or nag screens or anything.
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Or more accurately: can be turned on. Everything crypto is disabled by default.
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Functionality wise yes, but it's visible in the UI and frontpage and that can be disabled/removed .
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Just switch off brave rewards and sponsored content. And, your fork is ready.
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I agree the crypto stuff is super annoying, but it's a really nice and clean browser after you disable all that and tweak the settings (which you'd probably want to go through and configure with a new browser anyway)
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even as a crypto user & dev, brave's crypto shit is annoying af, it's inferior by far to what everyone else uses & they push it on ur face & make u have to remove it.
i'd rather just use firefox or even microsoft edge, even for crypto stuff
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We recommend just switching to Brave and disabling the 'crytpo crap' yourself rather than using a fork that is liable to go unmaintained and miss updates.
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So much this. I've seen countless of spite forks. Very few of them merged the updates.
Even large projects like Electron can't keep up with chromium, and then there is downstream crap like Discord that can't even keep up witch Electron.
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If you want Brave without the crypto crap then spend a minute or two and turn it all off in settings. You'll never see it again.
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Except on Android, unfortunately. The overflow menu is full of all of those features right at the bottom -- prime thumb real estate.
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just use firefox and ffprofile.com
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To me, Brave or DuckDuckGo are as malicious as Google
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What makes you think about duckduckgo like that?
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They are less invasive on the privacy front, but they also push their products much harder down user's throat due to less revenue from less accurate ads, just look at DDG's frontpage.
I also found them self-censoring towards IPs from China, albeit this could be the direct result of using Bing's search results.
It's much easier to compare it with something like SearXNG which has the same core principle, without ads, without censorships, without invasive marketing.
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Bromite used to be great, but unfortunately the dev seems to have abandoned it.
I've seen people talking about Mull, Mulch, Fulguris and a couple others. I think Mulch is tied to a specific Android ROM, and the others are Firefox forks.
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i left a big comment regarding this in another thread, TL;DR combination of brave on desktop and a lot of non-brave things on android, privacy browser + mull + DDG
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I use fennec as my regular browser on android and mulch as the webview implementation
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Mulch is tied to a specific Android ROM
Yes, that's because it requires webview to be patched, it's the same reason that Vanadium is only available for GrapheneOS. They do use some of Vanadium's patches though.
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It's here now https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools
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Looks like Brave is the best for privacy over all.
https://privacytests.org/-
That site and testing is run by a Brave employee, right? I'd be very skeptical of Brave's high scores.
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That's with firefox on default settings. If you turn it on to 'strict' and install uBlock, then it wins.
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yup thats the reason I wanna switch to it but damn wish there was a good fork that removed the bloat
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At that point just use Firefox / Librewolf, os just turn off all of the brave rewards crap ( crypto )...
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If fingerprint protection is what I want, LibreWolf comes with a very sensible default as compared to stock Firefox. If I am familiar enough with about.config and stuff then hardened Firefox can reach bonkers levels of privacy as well
If a Chromium-based browser is required that has Brave's level of privacy protection but none of the crypto nonsense... Yeah I'm not aware of any as of right now. Maybe once the Duckduckgo Browser becomes available?
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well all the signs are pointing to librewolf I prefer gecko engine to chrominum, gonna give it a try
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The mulvad browser?
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The solution I chooses is using that along with hardened Firefox
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firefox with betterfox user.js is my recommendation
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Just follow guides on turn it off "crap" that you don't want.
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well, brave's crypto is opt in anyways, it wont be used unless you manually enable it yourself
Firefox paired with arkenfox's userjs, or librewolf which basically configures all of that for you, are also good options.
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Never noticed the crypto stuff Don't use it Also, I use Vivaldi
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Use Firefox my dude, switched from Brave and haven't gone back
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You can just disable it in settings, fairly easily. This is preferable to searching for an obscure fork of brave (for me personally).
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Never trust anything that comes anywhere near crypto. Firefox with the Electronic Frontier Foundation's privacy badger plugin and a good adblocker is the way to go. https://privacybadger.org/
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Why is crypto so bad? Please explain.
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Maybe you can try ungoogled-chromium
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