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I can't answer that question but I've always wondered why anyone switches to Brave. I installed it a few years ago because I heard it was privacy focused and it immediately hit me with a bunch of shit about crypto and rewards or something. I uninstalled it immediately.
Because it is still Chromium based and it means it is fast on Android, plus it comes packed with an adblocker by default which works wonders in closed out systems like iOS, also as many browsers (not all of them) it supports account syncing which it is always a nice plus (I can use a good working version of Brave in all the systems and keep a good flow for example).
I main Firefox in pretty much all the systems, but the Android app is missing a lot of features like tab management, and the iOS client just sucks (Brave works better there despite being Safari based too).
It does respect your privacy but it comes with bloatware. You can actually remove them pretty easily
"Respect" for you as the user means you shouldn't have to do stuff like that in the first place.
Eh, gotta make money somehow. I prefer this over selling out to google
it only makes money until people don't actually remove the bloatware. so if it does make money, that's telling something
I installed it. Crypto stuff is off by default. Ad blocking built in. Multiple 3rd party testing shows it blocks virtually all tracking/fingerprinting.
Firefox/Chrome - you need all kinds of addons and pihole type setups to do the same thing. God forbid you want to use it off your own network, you need additional tools. All these tools break with updates, whether they are the browsers or addons/tools themselves. Brave has never once broken its adblock/privacy settings in the years I've used it.
Most of us on here are privacy focused, and want the average user to be that way too. Brave is a one click setup, nothing else needed solution. Is it perfect? Hell no. Is the owner a piece of shit? Hell yes. Does it allow the average user to take ownership of their privacy in an easy and non-technical way? Yes. Perfect is the enemy of good. I will gladly jump ship once another turnkey solution comes along that is as easy and privacy centric that Brave is.
bullshit
you need a single addon, ublock origin. enable additional builtin blocklists according to taste.
you can have additional addons for additional functionality. does brave have libredirect built in? does it block and redirect google AMP sites by default? does it have a feature to only delete cookies regularly for specific sites?
and let's not forget the elephant in the room: ublock is not working anymore in chrome! google made it so that you can only use the inferior lite version, that can only load much much fewer filtering rules into the browser.
I don't know if brave kept supporting mv2 extensions, but if they do, I guarantee to you that it won't be that way for long. it has been relatively easy sailing so far because google did not actually remove support, but it will be lots of work when finally google does remove it, and they'll be needing to patch it in for every new version
pihole is not used for firefox, and that's never been its use case. It's for everything else that uses the internet, but cannot have something like ublock origin: various software, windows itself, android and apps there, smart home and iot garbage.
Honestly this statement of yours proves to me that you don't know what you're talking about.
I have no idea what you are talking about. anyone else?
About the addons and stuff breaking, I constantly see posts about this adblock isn't working because Chrome broke something, this addon is no longer updated, google broke this so that addon doesn't work. That's the issue with using 3rd party tools, you have to rely on the tool AND browser to work together, and not break with updates or changes. You also have to trust both the browser AND the tool to keep your info safe and private.
Brave hasn't had even a hiccup in it's adblocking/privacy features with all the changes Chrome is implementing, due to how Brave is built. I just want a browser with strong, baked in privacy and adblocking that works out of the box. Brave is that solution at this time.
By the way, you seem focused on Firefox, I'm not attacking Firefox, I'm calling out every browser that needs addons to create a more secure and private browsing experience.
well yeah, google has intentionally broken all effective content blockers. that's the fault of chrome. firefox is fine.
firefox will never be able to add built in support for adblocking. reasons include that websites would not just happily drop support for firefox, but some would even put in work to block it entirely! a 3rd party fork can do that, but the main thing can't because of what will follow.
I'm not focused on firefox, I'm against anything chrome. firefox is not good, its the least bad, but in my eyes there's a large difference between it and chromium. we need more engines.
I think having this built in is a very dangerous move for a browser that wants to become popular, and does not want to be blocked by sites.
if all you want is to not need to install anything manually, librewolf has ublock preinstalled.
but I'm not confident about the content blocking abilities of brave. I get that it hides ads, but is that's all it does, or does it also block the resources from loading, tracking scripts from operating? because ublock origin is very effective with that, with its large toolset, if the blocklists utilize them
Like I stated earlier, 3rd party testing places Brave at the top of almost any fingerprinting/ad blocking/tracking/privacy metrics tested. It might not be the product you like, that's fine, but you can't deny the testing that proves it works.
I don't hate on Firefox, far from it. I think it's great for those who don't mind extra layers of tinkering/having control on how the browser uses it's privacy functions. Firefox, unfortunately, isn't 100% web compatible, and almost every fox user has some form of Chromium as a backup. The discussion about web standards ignoring Chromiuim alternatives are valid, but I feel that's an entirely different discussion.
except that you don't need to tinker. firefox is simply just not doing anything risky, anything that could easily break websites.
you want ublock? install that 1 addon. that's not any more tinkering than setting a dark theme, or the language.
that's funny because that's not how I know. as I know, firefox is more up to spec than chrome, but chrome often has its odd nonstandard behaviours which web devs take as standards simply because that's the most popular browser, and developing for its quirks is easier than developing for standards and also supporting its quirk at the same time
Tinkering - I remember when the ad blocking addons stopped working due to a Google change. Everyone hopped on the webs to see what to do next. Edits and tricks to make Firefox look like Google to the web page, which was needed to make it work again. I was just over here with Brave carrying on like nothing happened.
Firefox compatibility- Even users in this post say they have a backup browser when Firefox doesn't work.
Look, I'm not here evangelizing an imperfect browser. I'm also not sitting here arguing anyone's choice in browsers. I use what works for me. I just wanted to clarify some statements made that weren't correct. The Firefox vs anything else debate is as loaded as Linux vs anything else. Everyone argues and claims their software package is the end all be all when it just doesn't fit 100% of use cases. I use what works for me. When a better alternative comes along, I will gladly look at it.
once again, and I wont repeat this anymore: this did not affect firefox. only the google controlled chrome.
I don't understand what you mean here. there is no need to make firefox look like "google"
yes, because certain corporate software's developers not only fail to test with anything but chrome, but they use non-standard web APIs that only chrome has implemented, and nothing else.
and before I need to repeat this point of mine too: this is not firefox being not web compatible, but chrome being not web compatible.
that I see, you are instead here to speak false statements with such certainty as an LLM does
One tweak I was talking about is changing the user agent, which is absolutely something Firefox users on here and many platforms talked about doing to rectify changes that broke some functionality.
At the end of the day, the focus of my post was that Firefox (and most browsers) need addons to block ads and options to increase privacy. That's not a good/bad thing, just a different thing.
Brave is an out of the box turn key solution that requires no additional anything to do it. Again, not a good/bad thing, just a different thing.
Neither of those last 2 statements are false. Use Brave, use Firefox, hell, use Edge if you like it, and it works for you. I know what works for me.
I don't know when did I do that last time, but it was years ago. there are some snowflake services like ms teams that need this, unfortunately, but again, that's because teams is not developed to web standards, it is developed for chrome.
that's fair. but above, you were spouting false statements en masse, possibly discouraging people from firefox. despite not risking to have ad blockers by default, I can confidently say that firefox allows more comprehensive filtering without tweaks, and with stability.
I tried to install Brave and it almost nuked my PC. Completely jammed up. I uninstalled it immediately.
Yeah so true!! I installed it, and it launched an attack to overheat and destroy my CPU. Thankfully I reacted quick enough, and unplugged my computer quickly. However when I turned it back on, all my files were gone. It was cryptomining without my consent. Absolutely crazy!
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Lol yes