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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 2 years ago by whou@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] Ginkko117@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I use Brave as a second browser (mainly to separate different activities) and did not have any issues with it apart from dragging tabs between monitors (it creates an additional empty tab sometimes when doing this). Turned off all unnecessary stuff right when I first launched it and that's it. No bloat, no issues, just works. Didn't know about this CEO controversy but seeing as it was a long time ago, don't think it's a valid reason to not use Brave. And both logo and name are cool.
It's a solid option which we don't really have a lot of in open source space

[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 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.

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[–] Albinjose5219@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best browsers are forked ones. Use librewolf,mullvad,ungoogled chromium,vanadium,mulch (android).

[–] zahel@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

I've had my firefox settings/setup with multi-account containers, etc. dialed in for years. Never had any reason to change that. Librewolf is nice for people who don't already have existing & configured installations of firefox to have it basically configured by default.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I used to but it got bloated to hell and back.

[–] DriftingDeep@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Genuine question: I use brave currently. I really heavily on multiple profiles (work, side-business, personal) that are easy to switch between or have active all at the same time in separate windows.

I tried firefox, but in my experience, the method for changing “profiles” was unintuitive and cumbersome. Was I just doing it wrong, or does Firefox not have that same kind of feature?

I really wanna use Firefox, but that’s a deal-breaker.

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[–] Hailstorm8440@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I only use brave for iOS because it is the best there is

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FYI every browser on iOS has to use webkit under the hood as per crapple's diktat, it's just a fork of safari like PC brave is a fork of chromium, eve Firefox on iOS uses webkit AFAIK

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