Seriously.

Just gonna leave this here.

      • ch1cken@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Quite the opposite, brave’s defaults are very good. An alternative to brave on the firefox side would be librewolf, which gives firefox great defaults, but the issue with that is that they disabled auto updates, and there’s still a lot of people on the windows side not using a package manager (even though many exist).

        bullshit integrated into it.

        And again, there’s no “bullshit” if you don’t explicitly opt into the crypto.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I always recommend brave to less tech-savvy people,

      Why exactly? The tricks like “optional things to click” are explicitly targeted on less tech savvy people and defeat the point of privacy focused browsers.

        • QHC@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Those are choices, not requirements. Using Firefox is better than using Chrome. Doing the extra stuff is even better, but if doing that means someone gives up and goes back to Chrome, that doesn’t help, either.

          Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

        • hoodatninja@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Just getting somebody on Firefox with ublock origin is enough IMO. I’m not going to also remove their ability to use Google search. Especially if they’re older. I am very privacy oriented but you have to make some compromises for people lol.

    • Synthead@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You mentioned that politics should not be mentioned with software. Consider Hans Reiser, the author of reiserfs. He murdered his wife and was sent to prison. Would you be okay with running code written by a murderer on your computer? How about a vase made by a murderer in your house? Would you enjoy the voice of a murderer in music?

  • Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Okay, first and foremost: I do not use brave. I have used it years back (long before the URL-Rewrite-thing) and thought it felt weirdly bloated with stuff I didn’t use (a little like Opera). I would not recommend Brave to anyone at this point, because it’s… weird. I was out when they started to wave at you with their strange pseudo-currency-wallet that had to be set up and all. I would not recommend such a browser to someone who might then just ask me questions about the weird things the browser I told them to install does. No way, Jose!

    Now for the but: The article is bad. Like… baaaad.
    Let’s have a look, shall we?

    “Some higher-up of the company did something that is not moral”

    You do not become CEO of a company íf your moral compass is a high priority for you. Period. We still need to keep the perspective here: the donation shows views I really dislike, yes. But given how much many of those suited-up nutjobs in upper managements give to really shitty causes… these 1000 dollars were peanuts. Besides: How does a CEO with indefensible political views make the product bad?

    The Peter Thiel bonus fact:

    Can we stop to attribute any investments by large funds as a morally motivated thing? There was a guy at Peter Thiel’s fund who saw the project and went “Eyyy that’s gonna get us some Dollary-doos”. That’s it. That’s how business works. Those funds constantly shift tuckloads of money into truckloads of projects.

    There was a super stupid idea in the initial plans for the browser

    Yeah… thing is: They didn’t do it. You’d be surprised how many really “scummy” ideas get pitched in companies every day and how often some management-guy just kinda runs with them. That’s just business as usual really.

    BAT

    It is kinda weird, yes, but remember: At the time they started this, crypto was everywhere and it made the company money. I don’t see why the mere addition of this stuff is a reason that “Brave Browser is irredeemable”. It doesn’t interfere with the browser’s functionality, it just adds bloat. The article doesn’t distill that though. It just says “It has crypto in it”, goes on with something else and then concludes that “therefore bad” out of nowhere. What about the BAT thing makes the browser bad? Tell me, author!

    Brave had FTX-Partnership-stuff and didn’t apologize

    The apologize part is what baffles me.
    They some (probably paid) partnership with a company that tricked lots and lots of people. Why do they need to apologize for (unknowingly, naively perhaps) working with a firm that turned out to be fraudulent? Does your ISP have to apologize for every scammer who did scams over their landlines?

    Random listing of crypto stuff

    What is bad about this? Tell me, author! They went into the booming crypto sphere and got some users that way. I dislike the crypto-bubble as much as the next guy but why does that make the browser bad? My bank sponsored a local motocross-event. I do not like motocross. Is my bank account now bad, too?

    Please tell me why the product is bad if you want me to think that the product is bad.

    Affiliate scandal

    finally something of substance. Yeah, that one was a shitshow.

    But as much as I try to resist, I have to be nerdy here:
    This is not an argument now, I just could let this one slide.

    I’m not aware of another browser ever rewriting what the user types in the address bar.

    aren’t you now? So how does “does this browser rewrite stuff in the adress bar?” typed into my adress bar become
    https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=does+this+browser+rewrite+stuff+in+the+adress+bar%3F&atb=v388-6__&ia=web ? I didn’t type that.

    Again, not part of the argument, the affiliate-thing was bonkers and justifies scolding, just that one phrase ground me gears, as they say.

    Ultimately, Brave Browser is the apparatus of an advertising company

    hey, another real reason to dislike the product, to the point. See, author? you can do it! No need to ramble on for pages over pages without any point or conclusion! Just a few words do the trick!

    Brave Browser is irredeemable, and you should not use it under any circumstances.

    \ Tell me why!
    No really, that’s my main issue with the article: It lists a bunch of stuff and leaves it to the reader to assume that the listed stuff is devaluing the product of this company, basically because the tone of the article is “Brave bad”, but the article never reasons why the things brought forth makes the browser bad. it never concludes any point, just rambles on to the next like a slightly tipsy Thomas the Tank Engine between stops.

    • WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      winks in librewolf with uBlock, LocalCDN and altered UserAgent and fixed resolution of 1920×1080

      PS: I am paranoid

      • eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I would love to use librewolf but somehow it stops being able to resolve web pages where every other browser I have installed is still able to. It’s the only thing stopping me from making the jump full time.