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Never liked Brave and never will. It is so overhyped by everyone because they are too damm lazy to configure Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium for Privacy and want to trust a shady company with "privacy by default"
It's the hype from Cryptobros pushing it because it has crypto functionally and its own shitcoin.
Personally, I never liked how it wants to monetize your browsing time constantly and pushes a lot of crypto shit in its advertising. Vivaldi is much better as an alternative imo.
I prefer Vivaldi and Ungoogled Chromium as well.
Oh, Vivaldi. I really want to love it, I love the interface and general ideas, but the fact that in 2023 they didn’t manage yet to have an app for iOS and decided to focus first on embedding an email client inside the browser throw me off the boat. Also, there were plenty of bugs often with new releases. Maybe now it’s better but a few years ago it was quite annoying.
I guess you can install whatever browser Apple lets you then.
The reason why Vivaldi is not on iOS or iPadOS is because Vivaldi hasn’t developed it, not because Apple doesn’t let them in. All the other browsers are on iOS.
It's as bloated as you want it. Everything's customisable.
I used Brave for a out 6 months, but I'm really turned off by the devs. I switch to FF and am loving it. It's much improved from when I last used in decades ago.
I use it as my main browser and I honestly can't go back to Firefox, but I really dislike some parts of it and of it's community. The browser itself is fast, its default ad-blocker is awesome and there are a couple functionnalities that are nice to see, like Tor integration. But they block ads to show you their ads instead, that you cannot block even if you deactivate the "Brave Rewards". The whole reward system in BAT is kind of shady; they need to authenticate you before you can withdraw anything and it's worth peanuts anyway. When I complained about those issues on reddit, I got answers that looked like they were produced by sect members, and it wasn't even on a related sub.
You can go back to Firefox. You would get used to it after like three days. You also won't be adding to the Chromium monopoly and would keep the open web alive.
Edit: if you really despise Firefox for some odd reason I don't want to hear "it's slow" because it simply is not then at least use Ungoogled Chromium instead of Brave
I really despise Firefox because (checks notes) I, uhh... love giving Google hegemony over web standards?
Can I ask where you see Brave ads? I deactivated everything and haven't seen any of their own ads
If you use Brave News (to display a RSS feed), you get "news" about Brave's functionnalities. They appear as any other widget in your feed, but are marked as "Advertisement" on the upper right corner. Here is an example from my feed : https://imgur.com/a/RJV2Px2 .
Looks like it's not the case anymore, but when I opened a new tab, some time ago, I used to get ads from Binance or other cryptocurrencies exchanges displayed as "cards" on the right of the window. Right now, I only get "cards" showing about "Brave Talks" or rewards, but it used to be advertisement about other products, such as Binance or other cryptocurrency company.
I can't reproduce it right now, but some "new tab" backgrounds are (or were) also advertisement for crypto-related products.
There was also a controversy some time ago where they were injecting their own referral link when you typed a cryptocurrency exchange's URL on the search bar : https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/brave-browser-caught-adding-its-own-referral-codes-to-some-cryptcurrency-trading-sites/ . They stopped after it got viral.
At least they are tagging their ads as such, but it's weird how you can't block any of it when they decide it's there.
I see, thanks for explaining. I used to get ads on every other new tab, but found that I could disable that in the Customize menu. I've only been using Brave for a few months, but it's been a really good experience as it's been the fastest browser for me, especially for maps. I still use Librewolf as well, which I highly recommend. I am privacy-focused, but honestly this article doesn't deter me from using the browser and it seems like a lot of the comments here didn't read the article or don't understand that Brave Browser is different from Brave Search. I've been happy with Duck Duck Go for years, so I don't use Brave Search.
that's why I point people at librewolf
Read the article though. It's bullshit
It's a shame that there isn't a good alternative for Apple devices, though. iOS doesn't have much by the way of good ad blockers.
FTFY.
A little agressive, but yes, they dont reliquish access to your devce after purchase. "Calling home" being the catch-all term for devices that are fully or parially sending requests to its true owners for commands to run or data to give.
Don't worry as iOS is soon allowing browsers to use their own engines, meaning Firefox is working on Gecko for iOS so not only will you soon be able to install adblockers and whatnot, but also we can finally get the official Tor browser on iOS.
What are your setting os Firefox? What do you recomend?
@Compactor9679 @PrivateOnions uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Multi-account Containers, Facebook Container, and Decentraleyes are the basic extensions you’d want. Then disable pocket and telemetry in settings. There’s more but that’s a pretty good starting configuration.
install just adblock origin and consentomatic and the quality of your internet experience will increase 10 fold. that's really all you need and then you can add on some more extensions later.
I use the Arkenfox user.js repository for my Firefox profile, with a few lines in the user.js file modified to make it easier to use such as keyword.enabled set to true and browser.startup.page = 1 and other stuff, installed UBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, Dark Reader, Cookie AutoDelete, and Multiaccount Containers with certain cookies set to never delete within those containers. I have taken three different browser fingeprint tests from different sources and it does great in all three tests with super solid fingerprinting resistance. It is, in my opinion the most private yet very usable and daily driveable browser.