Stop Using Brave Browser
Stop Using Brave Browser
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Stop using Brave Browser
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Done. Never used it much anyway.
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brave is the best chromium browser out there and has been adopted by the popular Nobara and Zorin gaming linux distros
the comments on hackernews are quite enlightening
the original blog is now a month old
bonus quiz - what other technology was brendan eich instrumental in launching? fun! are we boycotting that too?
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I generally don't care about personalities involved in tech. I mean, Peter Theil money also started Brave. If that's not a dealbreaker, then I don't know what is. But tech people get weird at a certain point, and until they do something like sieg heil someone a couple times in a room full of wannabe Nazis, I'm pretty ambivalent if the product works.
That being said, Brave doesn't spoof or mask canvas info when I've tested it, and IIRC audio info, leaving very specific aspects of browser fingerprinting open. It does spoof fonts, which is great, so maybe they'll get there one day. So it's not a silver bullet or Tor by any means.
Speaking of which, JS is a very easy way to track people across the internet as well. So I have to manage JS exposure when I need real privacy. So nothing's perfect. No one is superhuman, and everything is subjective. If Brave works for you, cool. I've never trusted it, but I'll use it when the moment demands something more than Vivaldi.
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Spoken like a true brave cult member. It’s like a. Scientology post but with Brave instead of L. Ron Hubbard.
Imaging justifying Nora and Zorin as “popular” gaming Linux distros just because they have the cult browser.
CachyOS and Bazzite are right there.
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What's the best chromium browser to use then?
Firefox doesn't work on all sites, so I sometimes have to use Brave
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I believe ungoogled-chromium is best imho. I will admit the options are not looking good atm
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Genuine question: what sites do you run into where Firefox doesn't work? The only thing I can think of is Jellyfin
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Mh? We’re using jellyfin in Firefox all the time in our household. Or do you mean for specific codecs?
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Thingiverse doesn't work for me. Possibly due to several layers of ad/script blockers I have running but most sites don't have issues. Netflix and Hulu were screwy as well when I used them.
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Absolutely loads, honestly.
You'll just be trying to accomplish some random task like book a restaurant table, and the form will be inexplicably broken.
Most recent site I experienced this on is my national mail carrier where I'm trying to track a package and on Firefox their AI chatboy assistant goes crazy and covers the whole page blocking any interaction.
This browser monopoly has us back in the bad old days of "works only on Internet Explorer"
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The most annoying one is paying with iDeal
That "dutch" payment system breaks on FireFox, there are others but they aren't significant I do semi regularly run into a issue though (mostly mobile) and the switching to brave fixes that.
I use brave as little as possible, but it's needed sometimes
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Beyond trying a different browser: try the chrome mask extension for Firefox, some websites that refuse to work only do so because they are hardcoded to.
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Vivaldi is the one I liked the most before swapping off chromium
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I've always suspected it as a bad choice, it was my mainstay for a chromium-fork in a pinch at best.
But am curious how vivaldi truly compares in terms of privacy and general trustworthiness legacy -
I've been having to recommend Brave for older relatives using an iPhone
They need an ad blocker because of all the scam/malware ads these days, and iPhone apparently does not allow uBlock + Firefox
Brave is easier to setup, and should block ads better, than Chrome + uBlock Lite (I have to walk them through it over the phone)
Is there a better option for this use case? Genuine question
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It's also recommended on privacyguides.org whereas vivaldi doesn't seem as foss as brave
Is it allowable with the privacyguides settings for foss-support-reasons or should we still avoid?I gotta have some kinda librewolf alternative for compatibility-sake
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Sadly Brave was better behaving on my Android phone than Firefox. I suppose time to go back to roots
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Firefox has been pretty good on Android for a little while now. They have recently rolled out an interface refresh that is an improvement in my opinion.
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I avoid chromium based browsers in general, using ungoogled-chromium if I have to. I did look into brave when it was new-ish but was immediately turned off by the crypto integration. A preinstalled adblocker isn't worth having to have that.