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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] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I mean, there's simply just Firefox. Which is apparently not the basis for Brave. It does sound like Brave collects data so it still seems shady.

Edit: could have sworn brave was built on Firefox. It's not. It's chromium. Which in my opinion counts against it as I'd rather avoid a monopoly considering how much control Google has over chromium and the inherent biases Google has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brave is based on Chromium, not Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My bad. Not sure why I thought that. Still. Firefox is still a better alternative in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You might have been thinking of Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox and came out somewhat recently. Other privacy-focused browsers based on Firefox include Librewolf and Tor browser.