Idk what that guys is complaining about. I'm running Brave with also uBlock Origin (for the ads the native blocker doesn't detect) and right now on Youtube the native ad blocker catches everything and runs just fine.
I’m going to paste a reply I got in regards to Brave and why you should change to a different browser
just let people do whatever they want, wtf is wrong with you people
It's still better than using Google / Edge, and it's basically the only good chromium alternative to the aforementioned browsers - reminder that stock chromium is not good.
Beside, you forgot the most important point: they further the chromium monopoly, which while the engine is open source its codebase is too big so it is basically controlled by google
Nitpicks:
Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.
You can disable all the ads.
They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.
Depending on whom you ask, it's a pro or a cons.
Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.
just let people do whatever they want, wtf is wrong with you people
How are they stopping them? They're not. But if you think that opposing equal rights for LGBT+ people is a good thing, then you're a massive piece of shit, and we're morally obligated to call you out for it, openly and repeatedly.
Vivaldi is chromium based and far better than the alternatives imo. They're openly anti-big tech, push the fediverse, and will be forking starting at manifest v3.
Do not curse me with this knowledge. I rebuke thee!
update: karma was actually removed from the API even before I posted about it here, but the change wasn't released yet then. Servers running lemmy >=0.19 no longer expose it.
Check logs, with strict settings they block own domains. Even their telemetry is opt-in, not opt-out as other browsers do.
Cryptoshit is a thing, but 100% opt-in. Accountless sync is real solution for privacy.
False. Both Cromium and Brave borrow patches from each other, that is a nature of open-source. They sued someone using Brave branding, and some scam projects as well.
False. That's how Windows is made, VPN services installed are only manually started.
That's maybe even good, same-sex marriage is not normal for most people, but anyway that has nothing to do with browser, even if CEO eats childs on breakfast.
You should stop using products for ethical reasons
Yes, that's why I don't use Firefox. I don't like companies that give their CEOs the entirety of goodwill donations and use the vast majority of the rest of the money they make on companies with empty descriptions to give speeches and whatever instead of really investing in their technology to stop having stupid bugs and maybe even be better enough than Chrome to give normies a reason to use it.
I'm sorry, is it that weird of a feeling to want a company that pretty much has a single successful product to invest in it when it's an important part of the internet and in constant usage decline?
That’s maybe even good, same-sex marriage is not normal for most people, but anyway that has nothing to do with browser, even if CEO eats childs on breakfast.