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[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 128 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (32 children)

YSK: Brendan Eich left Mozilla over his own homophobic beliefs. He is also a coronavirus denier.

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Brave is homophobic Chrome with crypto on top

[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

A good enough reason to ignore Brave tbqh

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And they tried to steal money while claiming it was donations for content creators.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, honestly the most damning thing they've done, selling out their own users

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[–] portside@monyet.cc 31 points 3 weeks ago

I never liked Brave tbh, something about it felt sketchy with all the crypto stuff

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's not even the full extent of his homophobia. He also made donations to a politician who said that AIDS is a great thing and will purge the world of gay people.

He also gave an interview about the whole being pressured to leave Mozilla thing, and said he was disappointed in how intolerant of his beliefs Mozilla staff were once they became public knowledge.

Yes, you read that right, a man who wanted to strip gay people of their rights cried about fucking intolerance towards him. Clown.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I could hate JavaScript for free, I'm very thankful Brendan gave me an extra reason

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Fuck Brave. Just use Firefox.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

And he inflicted JavaScript upon the world, completely wrecking the World Wide Web. Fucker should burn in Hell for that, let alone the other stuff!

[–] nightmare786@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Go ahead all you want. I'll never install Brave because it's chromium based and because of their leadership and their choices.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What do you use? I struggle to not have at least one chromium variant installed for work purposes - I feel like half my jobs' apps or sites don't work in Firefox.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have ungoogled-chromium installed just in case, but have yet to actually require it.

[–] Dhs92@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sadly it seems to be a JavaScript or CSS engine issue :(

[–] scintilla@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you have to use something chromium based just use chromium or Vivaldi if you like something more customized.

At least ime they both work fine. but no one can really tell you what you should use. I avoid brave hard because I trust Peter Theil less than I would trust an addict to give me back the 100$ I loaned them.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

I currently use Vivaldi but I guess I was getting the impression that using chromium in any form was a no-no.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

ungoogled chromium or cromite?

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

i used this piece of crap on windows, and theres always a small brave.exe running in the background even when you disable background running. i have no abiloty to prove its spyware, but doesnt strike confidence.

also we have cromite, librewolf, ironfox, why would i install this crap?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

probably an update service. all browsers do it on windows because the os doesn't handle updates.

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[–] Pro@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

LibreWolf does not exist on Android?

[–] Turret3857 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

Cool I guess. But I still find Brave to be a sketchy organization with how they have done some of their schemes to make money over the years. So will continue to avoid anything they make.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 29 points 3 weeks ago

Brave has a good marketing team.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I gave Brave a try back in the early days. The Brave wallet was useless and something I didn't wanted. There wasn't much to differentiate it from Chrome back then on desktop. On mobile, it has built in Adblock but that's it. Vivaldi, IMO, bundles in more features for a Chromium based browser.

Either case, I have been on Firefox for multiple years now despite it's own issues. uBlock Origin is properly supported on it (both desktop and mobile). I think FF(nightly version or Iceraven, a FF fork) is the only browser that allows sideloading of extensions on mobile. Chromium based browsers are way behind in this regard.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Is Brave browser the cryptocoin crap browser? I think I've used it for a short time about 2 years ago, before moving to Vivaldi and later Firefox.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

good, now it can go fuck itself without google's interference

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

While continuing to use their own proxies to send your data to google.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Firefox can be installed from Mozilla and managed by Obtainium. Much better option all the way around.

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

So they can send your data to Microsoft instead of both.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

I wish Firefox would do this. I'm stubbornly always favoring it for a non-Chromium browser

[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 3 weeks ago

fennec is on f-droid.

To add to the others, Fennec is a fantastic replacement and has extension support.

Also heard good things about LibreWolf. Mull had some buggy behaviours I couldn't seem to configure away from so I guess YMMV, but that was my experience.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

Have you tried Obtanium? Allows to download and update from github, among other sources. There's even a site with source configs that's very helpful, and includes firefox.

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

Alternatively, Fennec is basically firefox and it's on f-droid.

[–] shaoiken@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

I use IronFox which is on Accresent or hosts it's own F-Droid repository alternatively. To me that's even better than vanilla Firefox on F-Droid.

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[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Brave's a bunch of marketing/advertising driven crypto"currency" i.e., pyramid scheme peddlers desperate for greater fools.
↳ β€œKill yourself.” β€”Bill Hicks.

On a computer either use uBlock Origin-included LibreWolf for stability and privacy, Zen browser for power users, and on Android one can use Fennec; all of them Firefox derivatives.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Good for them

[–] 68silver@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

That is great. Been using Brave for years.

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i used Vivaldi because it's good & has built in adblocker/tracker blocker that i can customize the hell out of it with tons of custom filter

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