I’ve seen a lot of people on the community say that brave is bad and has made quite a lot of questionable decisions. But Firefox itself also has made equally bad decisions. Mozilla has faced ongoing criticism regarding their default settings, their approach toward users, the high compensation of their CEO at over $3 million USD annually, and their investments in various companies that may not align directly with their core mission. Additionally, there have been instances where Firefox has implemented a temporary, one-time tracker that transmits certain data to Google during the initial installation on Windows or Mac systems. Brave has also undoubtedly made such decisions as well but the point here is that Both Firefox AND Brave have made questionable decisions and to specifically dunk on brave just because it’s chromium is unfair in my opinion. That’s all, thanks for reading my post :)
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No, after Brave installed a service level running VPN without my consent, and continued to reinstall it silently every background update even after removal, it’s a bad browser. That’s what malware does.
Comparing two companies with poor track records doesn’t make them good companies when compared to each other.
Yesterday I just installed Braze due to the loading speed on Tor that takes up to minutes to even load a site, I thought Braze would be a bit balanced between speed performance and privacy.
However, I instantly regret once I chose to import data from Chrome to Braze in a blink, I realize they are the same. But I don’t know any substitute browser available for better speed while respecting privacy. Tor is great on that but takes time. Any recommendation? Should I uninstall Braze?
Just pasting more info for those that were concerned, like me:
Issue. This was rolled back and only seemed to affect Windows.
(I don’t use Brave as a daily driver, but it’s my Chromium browser of choice when I need assess if a website is really broken, or if it’s just misbehaving on Firefox.)
If you are using Windows, double-check your services.msc to ensure that the VPN was disabled/removed. After I got tired of fighting, I uninstalled Brave and the uninstaller did not remove the VPN service. So I have my doubts the patch would remove it.
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There was a fork, from students which got silenced with legal letters because they named the fork Braver-Browser and its a copyright to copy the name.
It’s pretty fair to dunk on Brave because it’s Chromium. I don’t want the biggest ad company in the world having the monopoly on how we see the Internet, and Brave perpetuates that.
firefox at minimum clears the very low bar of not exposing casual user to crypto
but librewolf is king
Both Firefox AND Brave have made questionable decisions>
Yes, but is incredibly disingenuous to equate those mistakes as the same. Firefox has never installed shit on a users computer without consent from the user. Brave has - you know, the same way malware would.
Brave is such a pain, always adding features nobody wants, trying everything they can to get a penny out of their users.
Firefox- yeah Mozilla is making questionable decisions. But it’s the best we have.
Even though I don’t use chromium-based web browsers because of its monopoly, it would be nice if we could integrate brave shields into ungoogled chromium so people wouldn’t have to deal with all bloat and surprises from Brave
Of you’re on Android, try Cromite. You can add all the uBO lists manually, some are preinstalled.
