Irony of Brave Browser

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No idea why people use and recommend Brave when Firefox exists. It's full of crypto and other unnecessary add-ons out of the box.
- Since it is based on Chromium, but promises to keep the new Google tracking out in the future and maintain compatibility with extensions, I can see why it would be recommended. But only as a backup to access a site that won't load in Firefox.
  we're back to the days when Firefox first came out, except instead of some websites only working with IE, they'll only work in Chrome/Edge.
- It's faster on older devices
- Firefox still doesn't have vertical tabs which I've found really useful for my workflow right now, so I use a fork called Pulse. Don't want to use any extensions for it when Pulse and other forks do it natively.
  
  There's a million add-ons that add this, isn't there? I have one installed at home that basically makes it into what arc has
  
  sorry, why not tree style tabs?
  you can hide the normal tab bar and only have the tree style ones on the side
  
  I know it's most likely not relevant with you anymore, since you're using Pulse, but have you tried any of the vertical/tree tab extensions?
- Brave has marketed itself more aggressively than Firefox did.
  Additionally, Firefox' most devoted userbase can be quite bitter at times.
- Because Firefox on IOS has no browser extensions
  Edit: Why are you booing me
  
  that is because all browsers on iOS are basically safari cuz Apple doesn't allow fun
- Says it comes with unnecessary add-ons Comes with 0 unnecessary add-ons
  Bravephobes are now just making shit up Lol
  
  Brave Rewards
  Brave Talk
  Brave Search
  Brave News
  Brave Wallet
  Yeah, such a light and lean browser...
  
  "Bravephobes"
  
  Braveophobes lmao you sound like a paranoid government leader

This is such a terrible font for anything that isn’t a logo
- I thought there was something wrong with my screen!
- What even is that font? I've seen it before but can't place it.

What in the name of Santa is that font
- Poor font forces concentration and consideration from the reader.
- MADE Evolve Sans

Just yesterday I was searching for photos in Brave. Right from the outset without clicking on anything, there was a huge, unclosable banner taking up a third of the screen that was an ad for Etsy or something. I tried to go to settings to change it to how it was before, but I was confronted with another ad in the settings:
“Want ad-free search results? Upgrade to Search Premium™ today!”
Time to finally make that switch to Firefox, I guess.

They should've done what they did with the YouTube ads and told the user to block this ad using their browser as well.

The real crime is that font

"You have become the thing you swore to destroy"

Tbh I'm not sick of ads. I'm sick of video ads. More and more ublock doesn't block video ads but blocks all else. I don't mind anything but video ads over my videos and popup ads.
- Both (all) ads are bad though. I would rather have none of them while surfing the web. NextDNS and uBlock has been such a friend over the years for me regarding that 🥰
  
  UBlock doesn't block video ads on Netflix nor Twitch.

The other big irony is that if google gets rid of ad blockers on chromium browsers, brave is chromium
- Brave actually doesn’t take all of Chromium’s new code. They write patches that modify what gets brought in or used, which allows them to avoid bringing in changes they don’t like.
  More info here: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/10742158329613-What-does-Brave-remove-from-the-Chromium-engine-
  See also https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromium
  I don’t know how extensive Brave’s changes are, but it would definitely be easy for them to add their own ad blocker. On the other hand, changes like re-enabling the entire APIs that were taken away from extensions would likely be out of scope.
  It’s an interesting process but I’d personally rather just use Firefox

Correct me if I'm wrong but, I think Brave Ads are opt-in. I have brave installed (although I use Librewolf as my main browser) and I've never seen an ad, you just need to disable them from the settings. Ads are just for those who want to earn BAT (the weird crypto token) by seeing ads.
- I can assure you the BAT token (Brave Rewards) is disabled here. And which other settings are you referring to?

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