Brave Launches Official F-Droid Repository for Android Browser to Bypass Google Play
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And they tried to steal money while claiming it was donations for content creators.
Fake money
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Brave is a great browser, specially on older mobile. It is the default browser for the Nobara gaming linux distro, because it's so good, and recently ranked top tier browser by Pewdiepie.
It's default for Zorin as well now
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I wish Firefox would do this. I'm stubbornly always favoring it for a non-Chromium browser
There are tons of Firefox forks there?
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Come on, it's open source. It has some analytics but definitely not spyware
Come on, it's open source.
Oh wow, when you put it that way! 🤪
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Brave is a great browser, specially on older mobile. It is the default browser for the Nobara gaming linux distro, because it's so good, and recently ranked top tier browser by Pewdiepie.
I don't give a shit, to be honest. It's a question of morality for me.
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LibreWolf does not exist on Android?
Not in name, but by all means the idea does.
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The best chromium browser
At the very least the best open source chromium browser although the majority of those on lemmy hate the CEO behind it.
For my use cases I need to use a chromium browser so I use brave on windows, iOS and Linux
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I gave Brave a try back in the early days. The Brave wallet was useless and something I didn't wanted. There wasn't much to differentiate it from Chrome back then on desktop. On mobile, it has built in Adblock but that's it. Vivaldi, IMO, bundles in more features for a Chromium based browser.
Either case, I have been on Firefox for multiple years now despite it's own issues. uBlock Origin is properly supported on it (both desktop and mobile). I think FF(nightly version or Iceraven, a FF fork) is the only browser that allows sideloading of extensions on mobile. Chromium based browsers are way behind in this regard.
I setup brave on my relative's iOS device because it has anti-tracking builtin. But would welcome suggestions of iOS browsers that preserve privacy.
If Apple didn't effectively prevent browser extensions I would setup Firefox with privacy badger, and uBlock origin with an anti-malware list.
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Fake money
no the donation money was real. they added in buttons for supporting creators who had not opted in, swapped out affiliate links to go through them, and kept the money "in escrow" until the creator signed up. many people never did, and then they just kept that money they were holding on to.
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What do you use? I struggle to not have at least one chromium variant installed for work purposes - I feel like half my jobs' apps or sites don't work in Firefox.
If you have to use something chromium based just use chromium or Vivaldi if you like something more customized.
At least ime they both work fine. but no one can really tell you what you should use. I avoid brave hard because I trust Peter Theil less than I would trust an addict to give me back the 100$ I loaned them.
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i used Vivaldi because it's good & has built in adblocker/tracker blocker that i can customize the hell out of it with tons of custom filter
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What do you use? I struggle to not have at least one chromium variant installed for work purposes - I feel like half my jobs' apps or sites don't work in Firefox.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I have ungoogled-chromium installed just in case, but have yet to actually require it.
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Brave is a great browser, specially on older mobile. It is the default browser for the Nobara gaming linux distro, because it's so good, and recently ranked top tier browser by Pewdiepie.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Nonsense.
Browsers on iOS are all just Safari, there is no meaningful difference. On older Android FOSS Browser or Fennec + Ublock + Noscript are both faster and more stable than Brave.
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There are tons of Firefox forks there?
Support from the primary source of development is what I'd prefer. That's where the money is. Mozilla is the only one that could actually have a sizable marketing budget along with employing dozens to hundreds of software developers
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Support from the primary source of development is what I'd prefer. That's where the money is. Mozilla is the only one that could actually have a sizable marketing budget along with employing dozens to hundreds of software developers
All of those forks get support from the primary source of development. Do you know what a fork is?
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Come on, it's open source. It has some analytics but definitely not spyware
Many types of malware are open source
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All of those forks get support from the primary source of development. Do you know what a fork is?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Is your first instinct talking to people is to be a dick? Forks pull changes downstream and hopefully push changes upstream but if you want to see either the core Firefox web browser engine or F-Droid reach more popularity, you need Mozilla support so I would rather support Mozilla directly than any fork
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Is your first instinct talking to people is to be a dick? Forks pull changes downstream and hopefully push changes upstream but if you want to see either the core Firefox web browser engine or F-Droid reach more popularity, you need Mozilla support so I would rather support Mozilla directly than any fork
I'm not being a dick, I am trying to help you.
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I'm not being a dick, I am trying to help you.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My bad if I took your words the wrong way. I gave my answer for why I prefer to use the primary application, because of funding, and your response to me sounded like dismissive condescension. You may not have meant condescension but it reads like dismissive condescension to me like I've heard plenty of whether in or out of the software industry or academia
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And they tried to steal money while claiming it was donations for content creators.
Yes, honestly the most damning thing they've done, selling out their own users
