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

submitted 3 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] 24 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Brave is really a cryptoscam like any other. Lack of monetization is not the problem on the Internet. Monetization in other areas of life is. As long as we try to "fix" the problem of content creators by finding new ways to exploit/track users to come up with advertisement money, we are ignoring "how to survive with all my bills" is a problem we have in all fields, not just for artists.

Brave has shown over the years they won't hesitate for a second to introduce a very user-hostile change for all users if that brings them money. Trash it in the dumpster.

Also, it's a worrying trend that most new Web 3.0 browsers as they like to call themselves all have strong JavaScript support. Client-side scripting is an anti-feature of the web and only Tor Browser includes a mechanism (Safest mode) to disable it. If you have JavaScript enabled, privacy/security is impossible by design.

PS: i downvoted because i'm strongly opposed to Brave's recuperation strategy, not because your post in itself is bad :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

downvoted for the anti-javascript FUD unrelated to the topic at hand :p

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

This is not "anti-javascript FUD". Javascript is a very well know security and privacy threat. It implement remote code execution by design. For example, it allows any website to run timing attacks https://duckduckgo.com/?q=javascript+timing+attacks&t=h_&ia=web including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) against vulnerable devices.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

Oh my, what will I do then, nowadays everything needs javascript. are we doomed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

One of the browser's draws are it's advertising privacy features. Context being they have a quick-access panel of toggles in the user interface for javascript, third party domains, other useful things?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Brave is trying to spin what is ultimately an advertising model and is not private by design. Targeted ads = targeted surveillance