• im sorry i broke the code@sh.itjust.works
    412·
    1 year ago

    I’m going to paste a reply I got in regards to Brave and why you should change to a different browser

    just let people do whatever they want, wtf is wrong with you people

    It’s still better than using Google / Edge, and it’s basically the only good chromium alternative to the aforementioned browsers - reminder that stock chromium is not good.

    Beside, you forgot the most important point: they further the chromium monopoly, which while the engine is open source its codebase is too big so it is basically controlled by google

    Nitpicks:

    Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.

    You can disable all the ads.

    They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.

    Depending on whom you ask, it’s a pro or a cons.

    Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.

    See above.

    • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
      2·
      1 year ago

      Vivaldi is chromium based and far better than the alternatives imo. They’re openly anti-big tech, push the fediverse, and will be forking starting at manifest v3.

      • im sorry i broke the code@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        It is still closed source nonetheless, which is a bit of a gimmick since nobody sane enough could read through most of a browser codebase anyway.

        According to this website it is less private than Brave by default, more or less like Firefox

        That said, I didn’t consider it before but I’ll definitely check it out later

        • boomzilla@programming.dev
          3·
          1 year ago

          AFAIK it was tested with the default setting set to no tracker- and ad-blocker. When enabling all the built in measurements it looks a lot better.