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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] MeanPresentation80@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I personally use brave since a year, and it work like a charm.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

So both Google and those people from the browser company can sell your data.

[–] crossal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I seen someone say Brave is not as privacy concerned as you'd think on here, with a link to some article, but I can't remember the reason🤔

[–] ryan659@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Brave likes to push BAT (and thus its own ads replacing the existing ones on the web) but it's ultimately opt-out. Same with their analytics (which, in fairness, Firefox also does by default).

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[–] sil3ntki11@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was using Brave and after reading things about it here, just switched back to Firefox!

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My biggest concern with Firefox is that Google continues to make people's life hard. There have already been instances of things loading slowly because of crippled standards that only work on Chrome, or features like in-page translate only being available in Chromium based browsers.

Overall I've really enjoyed using it for the past 15 years or so, but it's definitely had periods of very rocky performance

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[–] 99nights@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've been using brave these days. I really like it, I have it installed across all my devices.

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[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also disable the default DNS over HTTPs to Cloudflare.

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I never switched to Chrome. I didn't do it when it first came out and people were shitting their pants in excitement. I didn't use chrome in the middle of the 2010s when no one even knew about Firefox. I still don't use it. I never switched from Firefox.

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[–] LazlowsBAWSAQ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What’s wrong with Brave? Does this effect Brave?

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[–] JuliusSeizure@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

TOR browser is built off of Firefox and is even more private.

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[–] MrGeekman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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[–] GonzoVeritas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched to FF a few years ago when my Chrome was showing some bloat. FF works for almost everything, but from time to time some sites, forms, e-commerce, etc., have issues with non-Chrome browsers. In that event, I use Edge.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Sigh. I really don't want to put in an official bug report for it but the #1 reason I don't exclusively use Firefox is a bug involving some porn sites I occasionally visit. No clue why, but Chrome (and its variants) load the sites in a second or two and Firefox will take 3+ mins to load them. Haven't seen that behavior anywhere else but those sites.

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[–] Mostly_Harmless@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just went back to Edge from Firefox. I've been a long-time user, but it seems like too many of the sites I use don't work properly and some not at all. It sucks because I've always preferred FF, but I gotta get sh*t done.

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[–] bloodninja@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I use ungoogled-chromium with Firefox as a backup. The great thing about ungoogled-chromium is its a barebone browser, and that is exactly what I want. Only downfall is the browser does not auto update. I use change detector to get a notification when a new version is out.

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[–] cartmancarter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Okay I’m going to step into it. I’ve been liking Vivaldi recently as a browser. Is that screwed too because it’s based on chromium? Or am I safe for now?

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