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Brave browser: Is it worth it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. Not sure where to post this, hopefully it fits here. If you haven't heard of Brave browser by now, it's made by the ex-CEO of Mozilla, and is prided on being private, and integrates crypto/bitcoin.

I like the idea of crypto, and would like to get more into crypto/blockchain, but I'm not sure I can support brave, or it's CEO. Do I swallow my pride and just use Brave? Would it be worth it, just for the privacy additions and crypto?

One reason I'm hesitant, is Firefox now has site-to-site cookie protection, whereas Brave does not. Mostly, I'm arguing with myself at this point, on whether to use Brave, and swallow my pride. Sure, as CEO of Mozilla, he made a bad political call. People can grow, right? Someone rebutted to me that Obama didn't support gay marriage either, and neither did Hillary Clinton.

Sorry to harp on this topic so much. What would y'all do?

Sidenote: A breadtuber I really like uses brave, so Brave can't be all that bad?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 years ago (4 children)

It's a fork from Chromium. That's millions of lines of code written by a tracking company. No fork in the world will unearth all those privacy-unfriendly design decisions. They may patch out the superficial, obvious tracking, but there's still going to be plenty implementation details that could've been easily done in a more privacy-friendly manner.

And in addition to that, Mozilla actually spends quite a bit of time on innovating privacy protections, and accepts/maintains patches from the Tor Browser devs. The Total Cookie Protection (/State Partitioning) that you already mentioned, is just the latest fruit from that collaboration.

So, for privacy I would always recommend a Firefox-based browser. Tor Browser, if you need all the privacy you can get. Or otherwise Firefox, IceCat, LibreWolf, each with the right add-ons to achieve the amount of webpage breakage that you enjoy the most.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I've heard of that Tor push thing. It's cool that Firefox is first to implement it. Honestly, once Vivaldi gets better with battery life I'll probably switch to Vivaldi.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Since you asked in the open source community, it’s worth mentioning that Vivaldi by their own admission “is part open-source, part closed-source”.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

That said, it’s hard to find a pure open source browser since Firefox uses their closed source pocket api by default https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

It's actually called the Tor Uplift. Also, Vivaldi is not free-software so interesting to see over there :)

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