No idea why people use and recommend Brave when Firefox exists. It's full of crypto and other unnecessary add-ons out of the box.
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Heh. Maybe he's doing high-end closeting.
Since it is based on Chromium, but promises to keep the new Google tracking out in the future and maintain compatibility with extensions, I can see why it would be recommended. But only as a backup to access a site that won't load in Firefox.
we're back to the days when Firefox first came out, except instead of some websites only working with IE, they'll only work in Chrome/Edge.
It's faster on older devices
Firefox still doesn't have vertical tabs which I've found really useful for my workflow right now, so I use a fork called Pulse. Don't want to use any extensions for it when Pulse and other forks do it natively.
Brave has marketed itself more aggressively than Firefox did.
Additionally, Firefox' most devoted userbase can be quite bitter at times.
Because Firefox on IOS has no browser extensions
Edit: Why are you booing me
This is such a terrible font for anything that isn’t a logo
I thought there was something wrong with my screen!
What even is that font? I've seen it before but can't place it.
What in the name of Santa is that font
Poor font forces concentration and consideration from the reader.
MADE Evolve Sans
Just yesterday I was searching for photos in Brave. Right from the outset without clicking on anything, there was a huge, unclosable banner taking up a third of the screen that was an ad for Etsy or something. I tried to go to settings to change it to how it was before, but I was confronted with another ad in the settings:
“Want ad-free search results? Upgrade to Search Premium™ today!”
Time to finally make that switch to Firefox, I guess.
They should've done what they did with the YouTube ads and told the user to block this ad using their browser as well.
The real crime is that font
"You have become the thing you swore to destroy"
The other big irony is that if google gets rid of ad blockers on chromium browsers, brave is chromium
Brave actually doesn’t take all of Chromium’s new code. They write patches that modify what gets brought in or used, which allows them to avoid bringing in changes they don’t like.
More info here: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/10742158329613-What-does-Brave-remove-from-the-Chromium-engine-
See also https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromium
I don’t know how extensive Brave’s changes are, but it would definitely be easy for them to add their own ad blocker. On the other hand, changes like re-enabling the entire APIs that were taken away from extensions would likely be out of scope.
It’s an interesting process but I’d personally rather just use Firefox
Correct me if I'm wrong but, I think Brave Ads are opt-in. I have brave installed (although I use Librewolf as my main browser) and I've never seen an ad, you just need to disable them from the settings. Ads are just for those who want to earn BAT (the weird crypto token) by seeing ads.
I can assure you the BAT token (Brave Rewards) is disabled here. And which other settings are you referring to?
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What's the irony? Are they inserting homophobic ads in to YouTube videos now or something?
