I avoid chromium based browsers in general, using ungoogled-chromium if I have to. I did look into brave when it was new-ish but was immediately turned off by the crypto integration. A preinstalled adblocker isn’t worth having to have that.
I’ve been having to recommend Brave for older relatives using an iPhone
They need an ad blocker because of all the scam/malware ads these days, and iPhone apparently does not allow uBlock + Firefox
Brave is easier to setup, and should block ads better, than Chrome + uBlock Lite (I have to walk them through it over the phone)
Is there a better option for this use case? Genuine question
Done. Never used it much anyway.
brave is the best chromium browser out there and has been adopted by the popular Nobara and Zorin gaming linux distros
the comments on hackernews are quite enlightening
the original blog is now a month old
bonus quiz - what other technology was brendan eich instrumental in launching? fun! are we boycotting that too?
I generally don’t care about personalities involved in tech. I mean, Peter Theil money also started Brave. If that’s not a dealbreaker, then I don’t know what is. But tech people get weird at a certain point, and until they do something like sieg heil someone a couple times in a room full of wannabe Nazis, I’m pretty ambivalent if the product works.
That being said, Brave doesn’t spoof or mask canvas info when I’ve tested it, and IIRC audio info, leaving very specific aspects of browser fingerprinting open. It does spoof fonts, which is great, so maybe they’ll get there one day. So it’s not a silver bullet or Tor by any means.
Speaking of which, JS is a very easy way to track people across the internet as well. So I have to manage JS exposure when I need real privacy. So nothing’s perfect. No one is superhuman, and everything is subjective. If Brave works for you, cool. I’ve never trusted it, but I’ll use it when the moment demands something more than Vivaldi.
very reasonable, sounds like Tor or the like might be more suitable for your wants. i’ve tried vivaldi and it just didn’t work as well for me as brave, specially on mobile
btw. did you guess the other technolgy? it’s the rust programming language. swings and roundabouts, eh
Someone was posting on I think PrivacyGuides about Eich also being part of developing JS, which is why I mentioned it. I’m not a dev, so great, he also did Rust? OK. Well, great for him I guess?
I don’t like Chromium browsers, so I use Vivaldi rarely when I need one.
Spoken like a true brave cult member. It’s like a. Scientology post but with Brave instead of L. Ron Hubbard.
Imaging justifying Nora and Zorin as “popular” gaming Linux distros just because they have the cult browser.
CachyOS and Bazzite are right there.
there’s a brave cult like scientology?
tell me more!
You wish the brave cult was as structured as the Scientology cult.
But I didn’t say there was one in an organized sense. The brave cult is mostly working at the useful idiot level.
What I did say was that your post was Like a Scientology post. Equal in culty-ness yes. But I don’t give more credit than that.
what did i say that was idiotic or incorrect?
in actual fact we have mind control abilities in the cult, such that i know exactly what you are going to type
You should read the Wikipedia article I linked. It explains why I used the term.
it’s just an insult which is why i asked for further information
so what are you doing after you’ve finished playing with your own poop?
What’s the best chromium browser to use then?
Firefox doesn’t work on all sites, so I sometimes have to use Brave
Beyond trying a different browser: try the chrome mask extension for Firefox, some websites that refuse to work only do so because they are hardcoded to.
I believe ungoogled-chromium is best imho. I will admit the options are not looking good atm
Genuine question: what sites do you run into where Firefox doesn’t work? The only thing I can think of is Jellyfin
Thingiverse doesn’t work for me. Possibly due to several layers of ad/script blockers I have running but most sites don’t have issues. Netflix and Hulu were screwy as well when I used them.
Mh? We’re using jellyfin in Firefox all the time in our household. Or do you mean for specific codecs?
Have not validated recently but the initial setup would not start in Firefox. The page would load but it would not be the “setup your first user” page. Had to use chrome to setup the admin account. YMMV.
Absolutely loads, honestly.
You’ll just be trying to accomplish some random task like book a restaurant table, and the form will be inexplicably broken.
Most recent site I experienced this on is my national mail carrier where I’m trying to track a package and on Firefox their AI chatboy assistant goes crazy and covers the whole page blocking any interaction.
This browser monopoly has us back in the bad old days of “works only on Internet Explorer”
The most annoying one is paying with iDeal
That “dutch” payment system breaks on FireFox, there are others but they aren’t significant I do semi regularly run into a issue though (mostly mobile) and the switching to brave fixes that.
I use brave as little as possible, but it’s needed sometimes
That does sound painful. Thanks for sharing.
As someone who uses iDEAL with Firefox all the time, I have never had it break. You might need to check whether there isn’t an extension that causes issues or looking into disabling Enhanced privacy mode for iDEAL.
Not sure what bank you’re with, but perhaps it’s only a issue with my bank. On mobile it doesn’t open the banking app when it should when I use FireFox
I recognize that issue. Firefox doesn’t forward to an app by default, prompting you instead. However, they often immediately forward you to the play store instead when it does not work immediately (not letting you accept the prompt).
Settings > (Advanced) > Open Links in App (set to always), would make it work (at the cost of every other website also doing so…)
Vivaldi is the one I liked the most before swapping off chromium
Sadly Brave was better behaving on my Android phone than Firefox. I suppose time to go back to roots
Firefox has been pretty good on Android for a little while now. They have recently rolled out an interface refresh that is an improvement in my opinion.
I’ve always suspected it as a bad choice, it was my mainstay for a chromium-fork in a pinch at best.
But am curious how vivaldi truly compares in terms of privacy and general trustworthiness legacyIt’s also recommended on privacyguides.org whereas vivaldi doesn’t seem as foss as brave
Is it allowable with the privacyguides settings for foss-support-reasons or should we still avoid?I gotta have some kinda librewolf alternative for compatibility-sake
