Iβve used Firefox based browsers for as long as I can remember and Iβd rather slam my dick in a car door than switch to garbage like brave. Every single one of those browsers is the same bloated Google-flavoured bullshit wearing a different fucking clown costume. Firefox is the only browser that doesnβt make me feel like Iβm being rawdogged by corporate spyware every time I open a tab.. Piss on carpet !!
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i thlammed my penith in the car door
Yeah, I don't do web stuff, but I use the browser every day for all the microsoft stuff my employer uses and it's 99% LibreWolf and then 1% switching to Firefox ESR that cane preinstalled on debian.
If something didn't work at that point, I'd probably fire up my Windows VM I use for testing before I'd install even chromium. I've installed it before but there's just no need now.
What's the deal with Brave? Why are people against it?
Brendan Eich. Specifically his stance against same sex marriage. He was pressured to resign from Mozilla, which he cofounded, due to his support of California's prop 8. Then he founded Brave. The Brave browser also has some annoying crypto and AI features turned on by default. I think it's a perfectly fine piece of software. I use it as a second browser.
Aside from the homophobia, Brave also runs an ad network so Iβm skeptical about their privacy claims.
Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google's dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.
Their very shady history + their very bigoted owner + current shady tactics
Edit: and on top of that it's Chromium based
i'm not against it, i just don't believe it exists
Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google's dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.
Firefox or GTFO.

im just gonna link this image the next time some uninformed dork asks me about this shit browser
The only browser on my os is mothra all others don't exist.
Fuck brave browser, all my homies hate brave browser
Anti-Chromium gang
Coward gang
thank you for sharing this non-existent content
my pleasure! be careful out there!
Out where?
good question!
Brave is the tits. Apparently, I'm guessing non existent tits? Whatever. I never see an ad.
Brave was made by a former Mozilla employee who got fired for being a massive asshole. He still is a massive asshole and as a longtime Firefox and now Librewolf user, I don't see any ads either.
I don't understand. Why does Brave not exist? Is it because the developer is a chud? Fair enough. Is it because it's Chrome? If so, does that apply to Vivaldi?
Can somebody explain something stupid to me? What exactly is wrong with Chromium? Does Google have backdoor access to anyone who's running a Chromium based program or something?
What exactly is wrong with Chromium?
It gives Google hegemony over web standards.
They abuse the fuck out of their monopoly, basically.
They made changes to limit the usefulness of adblockers (Manifest V3), they tried to force a remote attestation API (WEI API) a few years back that would let them do stuff like fully block users who arenβt running locked-down operating systems from using online banking software or accessing Youtube, they added many chrome-specific web APIs that are extremely helpful for fingerprinting and lock users into the chrome ecosystem, etc.
And if youβre running stock chromium, thereβs a fuckton of telemetry calling home to Google servers constantly.
And browser is such a complex piece of software that you cannot just fork it easily and change those things within a weekend with a bunch of unpaid volunteers.
They made changes to limit the usefulness of adblockers (Manifest V3)
Unless you're using Brave :)
As a web dev I hate the trend of websites relying on chromium-specific quirks, there are a handful of sites I need to use which refuse to work in any non-chromium browser, and customer support will always tell you to just use chrome as if you're not a normal person for using Firefox. So yeah what's wrong with chromium to me is that it's the new internet explorer when it comes to web standards. Websites and large businesses can afford to just not care if they are following web standards as long as it works in chrome, and if you have a problem it's your fault for not using chrome.
Yeah, we're back to the days of websites only supporting Internet Explorer because of proprietary features and weird quirks.
This is why I switched from LibreWolf. If I had to have a Chromium browser installed as a backup anyway for few important sites, I might as well use Chromium. Imo Chromium has won. It owns the web landscape. I've given up
In technology, victory is fleeting.
That's valid too. Thanks for pointing that out
@Chaunticleer this sums up many concerns (at least mine)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
Yes but Brave is Chromium with functioning AdBlock
no, because i've never seen it
Funhole containment breach. Outbreak Outbreak Outbreak
the nomadic life has been hard on me
thank you for making visual content on the trail.
the wheel of content keeps on turning whether we like it or not
