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used brave for like a year, saved up however much in their stupid coin and when i went to get it, my browser reset how many ads i saw.
Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.
Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.
I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for
One feels there is an allegory for “too stupid to be afraid” buried in here.
All web browsers are shit, Firefox and Brave included.
Never thought I would see a version of “all lives matter” but applied to web browsers
I went from using a web browser for everything, to trying to find native apps for everything.
The same apps that have access to more of your data (because they’re not sandboxed in a browser), use electron (ships a browser) and include trackers that one can’t simply block with an extension?
I meant, like email and lemmy desktop clients.
I’m not seeing this
it comes up as an ad if you search for “firefox”
I did that. Brave is like 19th on the results list and there’s no “forget the fox” in the app name.
Desperate much??
After installing Brave I was getting some kind of failed login popup in my GNOME desktop environment. Uninstalled it and the popup disappeared. It gave me the heeby jeebies about Brave.
Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.
Yeah, it tries to use the keyring to store passwords every time you launch it even if you turned off password saving, the same applies to chrome and chromium browsers in general plus most password managers, tho not always. I tried to troubleshoot it, most forums online suggested to remove gnome key-rings if you are not using them but it kept reinstalling it. This plus brave being slower on mobile made me switch to firefox
Ah so that’s what it was!
This post needs to get to 666 upvotes and stay there.
too late
It’s at 666 for me.
its at 672 here, and 667 on lemmy.ml
Time to remove our upvotes. 😂
I downvote your upvote!
does brave still provide free VPNs
yes.
I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn’t want to use Brave 🤷 (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)
Do you have a source for the edit, please?
Ah shit. Didn’t know about that. Uninstalling. Is there an iOS browser that will hide my device fingerprint other than Brave?
Tor Browser is available on iOS :) should be able to hide mostly everything lol
lol
Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?
Ecosia is not bad and they plant trees whenever you do a search:)
Ungoogled Chromium flatpak
I’ve been using Vivaldi
need a Chromium browser for technical reasons
With a similar use case, after messing around with Brave, then Ungoogled Chromium for a few years, I just reinstalled Google Chrome last month. I literally only need it for making sure webdesign stuff I do works okay in Chrome, and for the extremely rare websites I come across that refuses to work in Firefox 🤷 I didn’t change any settings or install even an adblocker, to make sure I’m testing as close to the “vanilla” experience as possible. I also don’t log into any accounts with it, so I don’t really care if Google sees what I do for that 2-3 page visits / month that I use it.
Secureblue’s Trivalent browser looks promising. Currently the only way to install it outside of secureblue is COPR on Fedora, but I’m sure there will soon be packages in the AUR, Gentoo, Nix, etc.
Other good options are Cromite, Thorium and Ungoogled Chromium
I’ve been using thorium as my secondary browser and it’s been very good. That’s the one I recommend.
Fedora works for me, thanks for the pointer
Here’s the COPR repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/secureblue/trivalent/
Get yourself a naked chromium from their github. That’s what I do. Least amount of bloat this way.
Use Ungoogled Chromium instead
Chromium?
No-ium
