• @dexahtm@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    12 years ago

    I thought it was nice that maybe a private browser would be mainstream but then on second thought… Something icky must be going on if it’s mainstream, i mean the whole crypto part was an instant warning for me. Proud Librewolf user over here!!!

  • @batman654987@lemmynsfw.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    02 months ago

    This is bulshit, i dont decide will i use a browser depending on who works on it, but depending on the browser itself.

    So insted of looking at browser itself this dude sugests we should look at people that work on it and asume the browser is bad if someone working on it is bad which is blindfolded deciding and its nonsense.

    So if you have malicios intent and dont have to say anything bad about the browser itself concretly and tehnical because if you lie there, many people that know how it is will say no it doesnt work that way here how it is than you just trash people that are working on it whic is wery hard to veryfi is it trye or not. And probably it isnt…

    So when we discus open source software there is no need to talk about writers of the code much because we can discus the code itself and tell concretly if something is bad. Exactly which line and why its bad.

    Anything else is just made up and malicios.

  • @realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
    link
    fedilink
    English
    16 months ago

    I thought this would bring up serious issues with the browser but it’s just…the creator doesn’t support gay marriage, the browser isn’t an adblock hardliner, and it has built-in crypto support?

    lollllllll

  • @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    92 years ago

    They just started showing ads again on YouTube when watching on Brave. Which is a very good way to get me to permanently switch elsewhere! Thanks Brave!

  • @Rose@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    44
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Thanks. Whenever I raised the issue of homophobia or his general support of right-wing causes that threaten people’s privacy (see the aftermath of Roe v. Wade for example), I got downvoted, be it on the PrivacyGuides sub where they adore the browser, or right here just weeks ago.

  • @Ibaudia@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    852 years ago

    The fact that its main 2 gimmicks are a shitty ad blocker and integrated cryptocurrency should be enough of a red flag, honestly. Just use Firefox, people!

  • @Squander@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    162 years ago

    I dont use brave, but is this how most people choose what browser to use? Weather or not the dev supports gays?

  • @rog@lemmy.one
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1482 years ago

    I dont know why anyone would leave chrome and land on something like brave.

    If youre ditching chrome, which you should, go to an actual different browser and use Firefox.

    • @hayes_@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      592 years ago

      Personal anecdote:

      When I initially decided to drop Chrome, I moved to Brave because - as a chromium-based browser - it supported the same set of extensions I’d grown accustomed to.

      That being said, the crypto stuff weirded me out enough that, once I’d weaned myself off the extensions, I switched to Firefox.

      • @Justice@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        102 years ago

        What extensions does chrome have which are useful that Firefox doesn’t?

        My only recurring issue with Firefox, which may have been fixed I dunno, is it for some reason it “isn’t officially supported” or whatever exact wording to use hardware security keys (like yubikey, which I use on every account that allows it). It’s only certain websites that don’t want to work though. Like google, Microsoft and many others were fine but I think paypal didn’t want to work properly but it does work on Edge, Chrome, probably Brave. Overall annoying as fuck at times but I deal with it to be out of Google’s-world

    • Anaralah_Belore223
      link
      fedilink
      English
      72 years ago

      Also, if you going to completely ditch chrome/chromium, also stop using Electron apps (which have chromium/Chromium Embedded Framework on them!)

    • @Cypher@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      52 years ago

      Streaming services seem to lower bitrate when I’m using Firefox vs Brave, so Brave is my go to for streaming.

      I use Firefox for everything else.

    • @FatCat@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -102 years ago

      Firefox and gecko are just not as smooth. I don’t know how you don’t notice this, especially on Android.

    • @chris2112@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      02 years ago

      I’ve tried Firefox several times but always end up back on chromium due to compatibility; a lot of sites don’t play well with anything but chrome anymore and this is very much something intentionally caused by Google, who have basically taken a page out of Microsoft’s playbook but with a much more mature product that is going to be substantially harder to replace then IE was

    • Avid Amoeba
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Chromium has metric shit tons of work done that seems to perform great. What I would love to see is for Mozilla to fork Chromium, staff it with enough people to maintain it, add/remove the features they feel are appropriate/inappropriate, and thus reuse the tons of free work Google and others have already done. As a software engineer, I don’t buy the argument that it’s easier to correctly implement every new web feature anew than maintaining a fork. Every large org that ships anything based on Android for example maintains a fork of an even bigger codebase. It’s not as complicated as people make it out to be. It’s not a new problem and there are strategies to manage it. If Mozilla does this, they’ll be able to play an active role in steering by far the biggest rendering engine’s direction, instead of playing opposition with no stake in it. Now downvote away! 😄

      • tate
        link
        fedilink
        English
        12 years ago

        The more market share chrome based browsers have, the easier it is for google to inflict their agenda for the internet on everyone. If firefox didnt exist, every web developer would be optimizing their sites only for chrome, and responding quickly to any change google wants to make.

        • Avid Amoeba
          link
          fedilink
          English
          1
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          It really doesn’t matter what Firefox’es codebase is though. To a web developer it’s a black box. It may as well be COBOL. So long as enough people use it and it behaves differently to a web developer than Google’s Chromium or Chrome, the goal you mentioned is achieved. This is why I don’t buy this argument.

    • @whofearsthenight@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      22 years ago

      I was using Chrome as a secondary because unfortunately “designed for Chrome” is a thing now, and got sick of Google’s bullshit and thought I was doing better by going to Brave. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that Brave has its own large ethical holes.

    • @exonac@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -32 years ago

      Brave is the only browser I know that can play youtube videos in the background on mobile. Please tell me another browser that can do that. The UX is just really good.

    • @mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      12 years ago

      I am using Brave mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

  • ax1900kr
    link
    fedilink
    English
    12 years ago

    lmao what kind of propaganda is this. Take your fucking meds lad

  • @Jesus@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    52 years ago

    Who cares? As liberal I’m sick of the mellow-dramatic outrage culture. People aren’t perfect. Who knew? If you don’t use brave what’s the alternative? Google, who is much worse? Maybe “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” and stop using the lefts social capital to alien people over small personal gripes.

    I notice people who write these types of articles never open themselves to the same sort of scrutiny.