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Why not Brave and Alternative to Brave. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Harry_h0udini@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org
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I've been seeing a lot of people hate and uninstall Brave. Why? It's not like they're tracking us or doing anything else shady. If so, what's the privacy alternative?

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

See https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

The TL;DR is that while the browser is technically fine, the people that own it are really fishy and are always trying to turn a profit, whether it be pushing crypto or discussing having their own ad network. They also use Chromium which means Google can slowly push things into it. You should use Firefox with Ublock Origin and tune the browser settings for privacy. There are also forks of Firefox tuned for privacy but I don't think most people need it.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

What's funny is that Brave Shields appear to be a fancy UI around uBlock. The element picker UI isn't drastically changed.

The wallet was for a whole just Metamask (it is now it's own implementation which is nice).

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox also cares about profit (the Mozilla Corporation makes Firefox and is a for-profit entity), that’s why they take that money from Google, try to get people to pay for email aliases and VPN, etc. If Brave maintains a chromium fork, they do not have to deal with “Google slowly pushing things into it” other than removing those things.

[–] nonsense@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox also cares about profit (the Mozilla Corporation makes Firefox and is a for-profit entity), that’s why they take that money from Google, try to get people to pay for email aliases and VPN, etc.

That does seem a lot better to me than crypto and ad networks.