Zorin OS 17.3 replaced the default Browser from Firefox(Old) to Brave(New).
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How is brave the lesser of those two evils?
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Based on absolutely nothing, I feel like it isn't..
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While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.
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While the company has a questionable record and a controversial business model, Brave Browser is an open-source browser with good privacy features.
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Maybe this was not supposed to have been posted until April fool's day. Silly Zorin was too early for the joke.
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You could replace "Brave Browser" with Firefox and the statement would still be true.
At least Firefox wasn't caught hijacking affiliate links.
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Doesn't Librewolf log you out of every site when you close it, by default? I don't think that's a good default
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Chromium is more secure, so if you add privacy tweaks, it is arguably better
(Btw I use Firefox)
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Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with things like uBlock pre-installed
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Wow, never recommending spring to anyone again.
Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move. -
Something ive actually wondered is if firefox is hurting for money so bad why doesnt it allow a toggle where a user can willingly just turn every purchase via the browser into a firefox affiliate link? If the user is approving it and its not a shady forced thing i see no issue with it, and it would generate plenty of revenue without needing to be beholden to ad companies or google. It'd be like allowing users to donate, without actually costing them any extra money, everytime they make an online purchase.
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That is the default behaviour, but it's pretty trivial to change. Also, I'd imagine the distro maintainer could choose to change the default settings as part of a post-install script, if they wanted to.
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Probably someone's pet project
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What's wrong with Brave?
- Based on Chromium so good web support
- Decent privacy
- Built-in adblock
- Easy to customize
- Open Source
It's the browser I've chosen to use after getting fed up w/ Gecko's terrible web compatibility these days (coming from Librewolf).
What's wrong with it? How is it evil?
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It has to be the default tho, bc the whole point of Librewolf is that it's trying to by default be untraceable and private.
It's very easy to disable that and re-enable cookies and the like, but your default experience will fundamentally be private, which is its goal
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The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
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It is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.
