• Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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          7 months ago

          Dude, there is degoogled chromium, and various other blink engine choices, but touting brave as a “superior” option? Oof. Big oof.

          On the gecko side of things, there are a ton of great choices as well. All of them are better in every single way than brave.

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            7 months ago

            Because it objectively IS. It passes privacy tests in so many areas where others fail and I’m not just talking about those privacy test sites, I’m talking tests we can run ourselves. It’s fine if you don’t like Brave but don’t let your emotions get in the way of the fact that it is, by default, the best option for privacy out of the box. Sure, you CAN harden Firefox or use Librewolf but even those don’t always succeed in passing those tests like Brave does.

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      7 months ago

      Why would I use brave (with its weird fucked up crypto links) over Vivaldi? If you’re using chromium anyway, I don’t get the brave love.

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        7 months ago

        I would use Firefox over either, but at least Vivaldi’s ownership model seems pretty good (employee owned). Brave is just so untrustworthy at a company level.

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          7 months ago

          Been saying this for years, the day Firefox gets native gestures, is the day I’ll swap.

          Can’t live without them (and speeddial tbh)

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        7 months ago

        Better privacy, better UI not cluttered by excessive and unnecessary options, and a fantastic feature set… but I’m referring to their search engine in this context.