Why I recommend against Brave.
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At this point there is a pretty solid list of reasons to avoid Brave and use another FOSS privacy focused option.
Personally, everything I've read about Brave makes me trust them even less than Microsoft, and Google.
That is the usual effect sensationalism has, but feel free to choose what best suits your needs.
I do enjoy Cromite, Librewolf, Mullvad Browser, Tor Browser and some others, but I can't deny each (as any) has it's own set of drawbacks. Better to have them in mind when setting up and using those browsers than to panic and run in circles searching for a perfect solution that doesn't exist.
Even more importantly I'd celebrate that people are using any privacy focused FOSS, even if it's not what I'd ideally use. If they feel motivated to keep on that road they'll end learning to use more advanced options in time.
On the other hand, make them feel insecure about their options and bloat their minds with sensationalist posts and they'll just use Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge because, "personally", why bother when everyone and everything is so evil and complicated and we're all doomed anyway?
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If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it's even listed on the reputable PrivacyTools website. Why am I telling you to steer clear of this browser, then?
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Bar better than chrome, edge or Firefox without modification
Why is everyone downvoting this? I haven't used Brave as a daily driver for 3 years since I've been with LibreWolf, but my impression has always been the same, that it's far better than stock Firefox, purely based on privacy (completely ignoring any ethical reasoning for not wanting to support Brave). Chrome and Edge being worse is obvious.
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Yes, the feature is working exactly as intended, and therein lies the problem.
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That thread is several months old
And? You have new evidence that things have improved?
and is specifically about integrating Arkenfox settings changes
Why does that matter?
Collaborating with Arkenfox on default settings was nice, but wasn't fundamental to the goals of the project. You can look at their Codeberg to see that the latest activity was a few days ago, and there have been several releases since the date of the thread you linked.
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Literally bigots, Russian trolls are defending it like they are on Reddit.
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Those are good reasons to ditch a product. Yet, at the same time, inside the Apple ecosystem this is the only browser that allows cross platform watching of yt without any ads, therefore suffocating Google and the fat cat MKBHD influencers from income.
So it’s like an evil to tame another evil to me atm.
Of course the best path forward would be to ditch both Brave and yt and then just get Nebula/patreon or something for serious content browsing.
I’m curious though: if I just use Brace only with a few yt tabs open and never open the new empty tab or visit another site, does Brave get any revenue from me?
Can you not use Firefox on apple products? They've got extensions for that I'm sure
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I just installed Brave on my Ubuntu OS on my laptop to replace Chrome. It is running better than chrome was so far. Is there a way to setup Brave to safeguard against some of things mentioned or should I go with something like DuckDuckGo instead?
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Most browsers are open source. They're all funded by advertising (except Safari). When you find one that has some sort of sustainable model that isn't advertising, please let me know. I'll be all over it.
Okay are you ready?
The model:
We program it
For literally fun
Together many people, that find different parts of bringing the web to people safely
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Okay are you ready?
The model:
We program it
For literally fun
Together many people, that find different parts of bringing the web to people safely
We do it completely altruisticI don't think you understand. It would take you time to do that. A whole lot of time. Probably thousands of hours. Time is what's known as a "resource".
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I don't think you understand. It would take you time to do that. A whole lot of time. Probably thousands of hours. Time is what's known as a "resource".
I understood perfectly, your claim is that it takes advertisement. Not time. And nobody has said it doesn't take time.
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I understood perfectly, your claim is that it takes advertisement. Not time. And nobody has said it doesn't take time.
I understood perfectly
You very clearly did not and still do not.
your claim is that it takes advertisement. Not time.
Somehow you managed to gloss over the only point of my statement while also simultaneously fabricating things that I never said anything about.
And nobody has said it doesn't take time.
You said "no resources are required". As I've just finished mentioning, time is a resource.
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