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New Community for Brave Browser (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello everyone!

I have been a long time user of brave and have been using it since day 1. I have created a new community for people willing to join and existing brave users. Join us in a mission to fix the web! Brave Community

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Hi. I was a brave user, but after learning a few things, not anymore. What's your opinion on the CEO?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

i used brave as a secondary browser to ff for a while. i knew about eich at some point being involved in both mozilla and brave software, but didn't know until recently that he is still CEO of brave. and in addition to opposing gay rights, also he has expressed his doubt in the legitimacy of the pandemic too. needless to say i use only ff and bromite (chromium fork for android) now. i couldn't justify using software with a troubling history that has a perfectly fine substitute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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Yeah. I keep watching his twitter feed to see what he says from time to time. It's sad that he made a great browser, but he's kind of a not good guy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

not only a web browser but also created javascript! that's extra painful to think about. :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah :/ It sucks that his browser is the only private browser with crypto at the moment.

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

Why would you want to have a crypto in your browser anyway?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Why should I use brave browser vs firefox on linux or fennec/duckduckgo browsers on android?

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

Try Iceraven browser by the way, it's the only one that supports custom extensions on Android.

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

I have been using fennec from f-droid but will definitely try iceraven. Thank you again for the suggestion!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

say how is brave better as a privacy focused browser? is it better than librewolf?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

exactly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Can you explain what advantages Brave has, based on your experience?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (3 children)

No ads on Youtube (i.e., at least, without requiring an adblocker).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 years ago (1 children)

How is this better than using YouTube-dl?

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

For normies, ... works just like chrome or firefox, without having to install any extensions / plugins, ... there are no ads when watching the youtubes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You can use Gnome Web, or even Bromite in android if you're a fan.

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

Going to look at bromite and chromium. Have used kiwi in the past.

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

How is it better than using an adblocker?

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

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Based. Brave is bad, use GNU icecat

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

Or Librewolf, which is closer to mainline.