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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 10 months ago by whou@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] ericflo@lemmy.ml 60 points 10 months ago

I love Brave, use it daily, and this article didn't convince me at all. Vaguely motioning at the founder's ancient political donations or the optional crypto features, doesn't make a strong case.

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 60 points 10 months ago

Chromium should be enough of a reason to get rid of it.

[-] lloram239@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

You have the choice between the engine made by Google and the engine paid for by Google.

Brave at least has its own search engine, something Mozilla doesn't even dare, as that's where they get all their Google money from.

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 25 points 10 months ago

something Mozilla doesn't even dare, as that's where they get all their Google money from

Or because they're aware that it'd be a huge waste of time and money? It'd be a lot of work to build a search engine anywhere near as good as the existing alternatives, so it'd give worse user experience and waste time.

[-] lloram239@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

It’d be a lot of work to build a search engine anywhere near as good as the existing alternatives,

And yet Brave Search has done so. You got to have to come up with better excuses for Mozilla's failure here.

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Mozilla pushes DuckDuckGo. That is a feature, not a failure.

[-] lloram239@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

How exactly are they pushing DuckDuckGo by making Google the default? And anyway, DuckDuckGo is just a wrapper around Bing, so that's not even much of an improvement.