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good, now it can go fuck itself without google’s interference
While continuing to use their own proxies to send your data to google.
Is Brave browser the cryptocoin crap browser? I think I’ve used it for a short time about 2 years ago, before moving to Vivaldi and later Firefox.
I wish Firefox would do this. I’m stubbornly always favoring it for a non-Chromium browser
There are tons of Firefox forks there?
Support from the primary source of development is what I’d prefer. That’s where the money is. Mozilla is the only one that could actually have a sizable marketing budget along with employing dozens to hundreds of software developers
All of those forks get support from the primary source of development. Do you know what a fork is?
Is your first instinct talking to people is to be a dick? Forks pull changes downstream and hopefully push changes upstream but if you want to see either the core Firefox web browser engine or F-Droid reach more popularity, you need Mozilla support so I would rather support Mozilla directly than any fork
I’m not being a dick, I am trying to help you.
My bad if I took your words the wrong way. I gave my answer for why I prefer to use the primary application, because of funding, and your response to me sounded like dismissive condescension. You may not have meant condescension but it reads like dismissive condescension to me like I’ve heard plenty of whether in or out of the software industry or academia
To add to the others, Fennec is a fantastic replacement and has extension support.
Also heard good things about LibreWolf. Mull had some buggy behaviours I couldn’t seem to configure away from so I guess YMMV, but that was my experience.
Have you tried Obtanium? Allows to download and update from github, among other sources. There’s even a site with source configs that’s very helpful, and includes firefox.
https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/
Alternatively, Fennec is basically firefox and it’s on f-droid.
fennec is on f-droid.
Good for them
Go ahead all you want. I’ll never install Brave because it’s chromium based and because of their leadership and their choices.
What do you use? I struggle to not have at least one chromium variant installed for work purposes - I feel like half my jobs’ apps or sites don’t work in Firefox.
graphene os + vanadium is secure and private. Still chromium based though.
ungoogled chromium or cromite?
I have ungoogled-chromium installed just in case, but have yet to actually require it.
If you have to use something chromium based just use chromium or Vivaldi if you like something more customized.
At least ime they both work fine. but no one can really tell you what you should use. I avoid brave hard because I trust Peter Theil less than I would trust an addict to give me back the 100$ I loaned them.
I currently use Vivaldi but I guess I was getting the impression that using chromium in any form was a no-no.
Would this work for those sites? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/
Sadly it seems to be a JavaScript or CSS engine issue :(
I like Brave and That is great. You know what also great signing the stop killing games initiative EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
i used Vivaldi because it’s good & has built in adblocker/tracker blocker that i can customize the hell out of it with tons of custom filter
The best chromium browser
At the very least the best open source chromium browser although the majority of those on lemmy hate the CEO behind it.
For my use cases I need to use a chromium browser so I use brave on windows, iOS and Linux
Ha, wait until they hear who the main developers are for Lemmy! Not much moral consistency
Thanks for the F-Droid
-Dirty Mike and the boys
i used this piece of crap on windows, and theres always a small brave.exe running in the background even when you disable background running. i have no abiloty to prove its spyware, but doesnt strike confidence.
also we have cromite, librewolf, ironfox, why would i install this crap?
Come on, it’s open source. It has some analytics but definitely not spyware
Many types of malware are open source
Are you serious guys? Brave isn’t malware, it’s been checked by thousands.
And several of them are here ITT saying that the browser is sketchy.
Two words for two different things, yes
You should consider thinking about what people say before responding. It will probably lead to improved understanding and more relevant replies on your part.
Says the guy who confused the words “sketchy” and “spyware”
Come on, it’s open source.
Oh wow, when you put it that way! 🤪
probably an update service. all browsers do it on windows because the os doesn’t handle updates.
fuck their update service. when the browser executed, it can check for a new version like all browsers did for 20 years.
LibreWolf does not exist on Android?
Not in name, but by all means the idea does.
Iron fox is great.
Was my first impression.
However, it is maybe a bit excessively prohibitive in it’s attempts to provide privacy/security.
And there are a few issues that leave some privacy options wide open for some reason.
To the 1st point, they use a couple dozen different blocklists, using uBlock. Those default lists block sites that can test your browser for security and privacy vulnerability. Eg one of the most used and ubiquitous sites: browserleaks.org is blocked.
Which brings me to 2nd point.
I always check webrtc for leaks. In Mozilla/Firefox builds that is
media.peerconnection.enabledin about:config.
In the plethora of blocklists used by ironfox two are conspicuously left unchecked: block webrtc and unbreak webrtc.
And, for whatever reasoning, in about config, yep, peerconnection is enabled. As is webgl.Maybe I don’t get out much, but I have never experienced an issue with any website that required webrtc, webgl, or wrbgpu be enabled. (They are each significant attack surfaces and each leak data you didn’t know was being leaked)
I’m not using iron fox to use teams or make a video call. There is zero reason for it.
And blocking sites that check these has me maybe a little cautious on it really being the thing it says it is.
Brave has a good marketing team.
A bunch of marketing/advertising driven crypto"currency" i.e., pyramid scheme peddlers desperate for greater fools.
↳ “Kill yourself.” —Bill Hicks.On a computer either use uBlock Origin-included LibreWolf for stability and privacy, Zen browser for power users, and on Android one can use Fennec; all of them Firefox derivatives.
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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.Cool I guess. But I still find Brave to be a sketchy organization with how they have done some of their schemes to make money over the years. So will continue to avoid anything they make.
Firefox can be installed from Mozilla and managed by Obtainium. Much better option all the way around.
So they can send your data to Microsoft instead of both.
