Brave, owned by Brendan Eich who has donated to homophobic charities and whose browser promotes a load of crypto bro shit on the new tab page.
Unironically, using straight up Google Chrome is better IMO
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Bro missed his crypto scam chance by 6-12mo and just won't give up.
I tell people to use open source Chromium, Firefox or ... Hell, use Vivaldi or something. Brave is a bad time waiting to happen at this point.
Would you looks at that brave doing something crazy again.
Now we just gotta wait for the CEO to go on a marketing campaign for new users, in an attempt to drown out the story.
I've seen this software behaviour back in the day, oh wait its called trojan.
Yet another reason to not use Brave.
If you care about privacy at all why are you installing brave
Why is every fucking post in the privacy communities just a circle jerk about Brave?
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And spyware for free, and I would not be surprised if they included an insecure backdoor at no extra cost.
As compared to a secure backdoor?
Both shitty, yes, but an unsecure backdoor is opening the door to every hacker on the planet, not just one group.
I was disagreeing that a backdoor can ever be secure, because by definition it's a way to bypass security protocols and if one person can bypass them, there's no guarantee others can't too.
Of course, no backdoor is secure, but among them, there are the just plain bad and the even worse.
Well I feel better about making the switch to Firefox now, and doing a custom user.js
What is the consensus here on using Brave search in Firefox?
It's giga cringe
I've posted a similar question to asklemmy but more over the focus on preference than privacy. In short the search engine Kagi is really good, Brave search was what I had used for a while. I think search engine choice is a case by case kinda thing, each person uses what they like. There are some other engines I forgot from my post which are more privacy centered.
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I use Brave Search on Firefox, but I mostly use the shortcuts it provides like !yt and !g. A few months back I mostly used it over google, but the search results more times than not have been worse in comparison for me.
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