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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Putting Brave and Firefox next to each other doesn't sit right with me. I'd say Brave is the tech normie's "secure" browser. Then you can put Librewolf next to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Technically they have about the same privacy standards by default

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As someone who went from Chrome to Brave, im actually very curious. What are some of the differences between Firefox and Brave? Should I make it a priority to switch?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Both Brave and Firefox are both weakly copylefted libre software (MPLv2). However both programs are culpable to privacy pitfalls and bad practices. Brave has its infamous crypto/ad scheme and firefox has google search as its default engine (among other opt out telemetry). Both have users run nonfree javascript by default.

Use firefox instead of Brave since firefox gives you more freedom on how hardened you want your web browser to be from a very low level. Theres also Librewolf for privacy and GNU Icecat for freedom.

Also package maintainers have firefox in their repos and virtually never have Brave

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

mainly not being based on chromium, no integrated crypto stuff, css theming support, and some compatibility issues with complex websites (as a result of no chromium)