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Please, do not use Brave. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever.

Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency which they then added to a rewards program that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave.

Edit: Please be aware that the spyware article on Brave (and the rest of the browsers on the site) is outdated and may not reflect the browser as it is today.

After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes into URL's. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators.

Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I'd say the answer is a very clear no.

One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program making a fortune from its users who will likely lose their money.

Edit: To the people commenting saying how Brave has a good out-of-the-box experience compared to other browsers, yes, it does. However, this is not a warning for your average person, this is a warning for people who actively care about their privacy and don't mind configuring their browser to maximize said privacy.

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[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use brave on android, because there's not much choice. I really-really-really loved bromite, but noupdatess for like a year Recently I found out there's cromite so I think i will check that one out
On desktop I use librewolf, only
For any people using google chrome/yandex/edge/opera I install brave and disable all the crypto/advertising/crap. It would be nice to have a script that does it automatically. Or another browser that just doesn't have that

[–] Zastyion345@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is better in Brave then Mull(firefox fork) or firefox ?

I switched from Bromite and Vandium to Mull and it is so much better with the addons you can install (ublock etc.)

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

The security aspect really. FF on Android has terrible security compare to Chromium and Mozilla is making really slow progress it seems. Fission is still not enabled on mobile despite being on desktop for years. And even then it seems the sandboxing on FF desktop is just not considered quite as robust as Chromiums. Doesn't matter much though because on mobile FF has none of that.

I still personally also use Mull but that is something to keep in mind. Brave has all of that because it has the Chromium base of course.

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The second comment really explains it. Chromium based browsers are more secure on android than any ff as for right now.

Also I would like to add that at the time when I was hopping browsers ff was way slower, and i'm pretty sure it will be slow these days if I install all the extentiions

Also, another thing, in my experience, password managers work a little better with chromes, and also just websites look prettier, and the PWAs

And a word about brave and ff, tbh they both suck

Mull is fine, brave has some nice features useful for me To be honest, today I tried that chromite I mentioned yesterday, and oh man, oh man, oh man, this is a whole new level

[–] Jomn@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Any reasons why you do not consider Mull, or even simply Firefox on android ? Mull works really well for me and can really be seen as the Librewolf equivalent for Android.