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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love it when people just flat out refuse to read the article. Why read when you can comment instead?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could ignore my reply, but instead you decided to attack me. I don't know what's your problem, but it's between two years right in your head, so please leave me out of it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

Someone needs a nap. It'll be ok.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

from the article...

Ultimately, Brave Browser is the apparatus of an advertising company, a bloated and complicated experience for the average user, and the pet project of the person kicked out of Mozilla for continuing to defend harmful political donations. If you want a privacy-focused web browser, use Firefox or Vivaldi. If you want to support your favorite content creators and publishers, turn on advertisements or support them through the methods they already support (Patreon, Ko-Fi, and so on). Brave Browser is irredeemable, and you should not use it under any circumstances.

I don't use brave and I am not interested in using it, so YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

because it’s shit

All those i figured

and the pet project of the person kicked out of Mozilla for continuing to defend harmful political donations

This one is interesting to me because it begins to explains why it has the same terrible clipart lions head logo as a bunch of deadend political parties, groups, and candidates. It seems pretty obvious now

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Everyone who I've ever seen talk about using Brave has been a chud, so I always thought it was sus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is Vivaldi good for privacy? It is closed-source and I don't understand its business model.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not according to PrivacyTests.org. It lacks a lot of state partitioning, amongst other things. Just FYI, the front end UI is closed source, but the backend/engine is open source, because they're just another chromium spin off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

exactly, there's a lot of trust involved in using Vivaldi. I don't know why someone recommends it over Brave in the name of privacy.