Brave has crypto minded shit built in, and they “protect you” by running their own tracking network, so they can be the exclusive sellers of the data.
Fuck brave.
Saved your comment so I can quote it anytime I see somebody try to push Brave on someone else. It’s like the Jehovah’s Witnesses of browsers Istg.
crypto minded shit built in
It’s opt-in.
they can be the exclusive sellers of the data.
You just described every single internet service that you’re not actively paying for.
Fuck Brave.
I respect your opinion, even if it’s silly.
Do they still hijack links to add their own referral codes?
It’s opt-in.
Yeah, the part that makes you money is. Still have to manually disable all of the popups and icons begging you to use it.
You just described every single internet service that you’re not actively paying for.
Difference is those sites don’t necessarily advertise themselves as “privacy respecting”
Meanwhile I’m on LibreWolf enjoying both extra anti-tracking features and not being reliant on Chromium
I tried Librewolf for a while and I gotta admit that many websites were broken for various reasons. It made using the web a bit more difficult.
Brave is a piece of shit software, created by a piece of shit person.
Tabs on side and adblock is all i care about. I wish firefox management was doing less harm to firefox, but it’s still better than chrome.
My main criteria for a browser is not being Chrome or Chromium based.
This leaves my only options being Firefox and it’s forks.
Or Microsoft Edge which stifles laughter I’m not gonna do.
Currently on Firefox but might give Librewolf a try.
Edit: I’ve been told Edge is also Chromium based now, the Firefox ecosystem really is the last holdout huh?
Edge is Chromium-based. It’s also not (functionally) half bad, because, well, it’s chromium based, but that obviously comes with all the other drawbacks
My workplace is basically as close to 100% Microsoft as you can get. When I started I figured “hey let’s try out this new Edge browser and see if it’s as good as people are saying” and y’know what, it’s had some nice features that Chrome lacks that I really appreciate.
However Microsoft entirely killed it for me by recently making every browser profile automatically sign into the Microsoft account that Windows is signed into. I was using different profiles to use different Microsoft accounts for managing Microsoft services so now I have my named account everywhere instead of the correct admin account that actually has access to more than the bare minimum. Literally entirely defeated the purpose of browser profiles. So I switched to Firefox at work because I can use the tab container feature for the same purpose and have fewer windows open at once as an added benefit
Firefox and maybe Ladybird (if it doesn’t turn into vaporware)
As alternatives to webkit/chromium/gecko browsers go, I like ladybird’s speed of progress and their mentality of doing everything themselves (no external dependencies), but Kling’s political views are concerning. Servo is going slower but still making progress (fell behind in implementing web standards), and both are kinda terrible in terms of speed afaik
Servo I’ve fully not heard of until just now, I’ll have to take a look-see
Everybody sucks but you really should be cheering for Firefox in such a fight. Even now.
Fuck that, Waterfox
Stupid argument. None of the various Firefox forks has any chance to keep existing without Firefox. You should still cheer for Firefox
None of the various Firefox forks has any chance to keep existing without Firefox
Firefox, the AICentric browser of the future! We are here to fuck you over just like everyone else!
Firefox one of the few browsers that lets you turn off the shitty ai features vs brave the browser that forses shit down your throat uses you to kryptomine and is owned by a bigoted piece of shit!
If you want a low-drama setup: Firefox + uBlock Origin + tweak Enhanced Tracking Protection to ‘Strict’. Brave is solid too, but I’ve had a few sites act weird with the defaults.
And do that on librewolf or waterfox
Librewolf already does that by default
