Brave is my backup for Firefox. I simply never signed up for bat and removed the icon from the bar.
I'm sure they're collecting and will sell my information to anybody that will pay, But that information will be less reaching than Microsoft or Google, their fingerprinting against other sites is very good so it's probably limiting my exposure more Even though they're also a broker. How I keep them around for the ad blocking alone, they actually have a team of paid developers to keep YouTube and browser ads at bay, they're also doing the ad blocking in the core application instead of the plugins so it's not something that can be easily bypassed.
It is fairly popular these days which gives me hope. The fact that people are willing to give up Chrome is a very good sign.
Honestly the custom Firefox browsers are the best option but they are less well known and harder to use and understand. The great part about Brave is that it just works.
Sadly it's not even that far off the truth. Looking at Europe where more and more countries lean to the right. And the best idea democratic parties have is to copy right wing talking points in order to win back voters.. which obviously doesn't work.
I remember a time back when I still used twitter, thinking: "oh guess I'll follow that dude who created Javascript" then shortly after wondering: "why is there so much stupid shit showing up on my timeline lately?".
i don't get what's going on in this comment section - are we going to be mad at some code for what a person says on social media?
i tried running Firefox on my 2018 budget phone and every https handshake takes 5 awkward seconds and it's more like 0.5 seconds on brave. it's open source, built in dark mode, and runs well for me. it's not even a gut feeling thing, on Android this is objectively beating the competition within the privacy conscious space.
i believe COVID is as natural and genuine as the historically evident spanish flu - but even if someone exists who is too stupid to get it, I'm happily enjoying the fact that he has nothing to do with me
the same freedom that affords him the ability to be a dumbass in public affords you the freedom to not be dead.
though i do get the worries that come with the extremism spreading out.
most social media anger is trying to fix problems that aren't problems. meanwhile politicians get away not pivoting towards UBI. then we get more nationalists, and then we get more social media shitstorms. 😬 anyways, enjoy the ride everyone
Allow me to expand my point. If you are using a computing device of any type, you are using the fruits of the labor of IBM, Xerox, and AT&t from the 1950s and 1960s. That means, by your argument, you are glorifying racism, homophobia, sexual assault and xenophobia among other things. You should definitely get off the internet.
I might suggest getting off the internet and finding a completely self-sufficient lifestyle then. I guarantee you there are people that you would disagree with in person, in every supply chain.
Better stop buying anything made in China then, what with the slavery and human rights abuses. And you should stop using oil and gas products as well because climate change kills. Good luck with that.
until "racist" is no longer the go-to word that the weakminded autoload to explain lifes puzzles, we will always be fighting each other. and downvoted by 18 racist autoloaders. point proven
It really isn't that bad. I'm say this why comparing it to all the telemetry and ads in Firefox. Sure you can turn that stuff off but it takes effort to harden Firefox.
I read the meme & I was like...what the hell's wrong with Brave?? Good product IIRC.
I don't use it anymore, only because it's too niche (and isn't it still basically Chrome, reskinned?). We can't make enemies of every fucking browser because of every stupid little thing.
I'm now on Mozilla Firefox, partially because of this community & its push, and now I'm hearing "Mozilla bad, or will be bad, because advertisements". 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 Okay?? So who's fucking good? Is anyone good? Can someone, somewhere, create a good & secure browser without issues?