this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
748 points (96.6% liked)

Firefox

18325 readers
942 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago

Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.

[–] [email protected] 383 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Forget the fox!"

... "Contains ads"

No, I don't think I will.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 days ago (11 children)

It's on Chromium so I will not use them

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 206 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Brave? The browser that hides ads and substitutes their own? The one that keeps you private from Google AdSense so they can sell your data themselves? The one that keeps their Chromium build lean, so that you don’t notice the crypto miner running along side of it?

The fucking PayPal Honey of browsers? When the fuck did they ever look good? They’re like the “Banzai Buddy” of the HTML5 era

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (4 children)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They managed to piss off Tom Scott.

A thing I had not previously considered was possible.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave 🤷 (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)

Edit: Oh yes, and the CEO's homophobia is not helping either...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for the edit, please?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/mozilla-boss-brendan-eich-quits-in-row-over-his-opposition-to-gay-marriage-9237701.html

(...) anger over his $1,000 (£600) donation in 2008 to support Californian anti-gay marriage laws bubbled over when he was appointed chief executive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 220 points 3 days ago (40 children)

Contains Ads

I don't know why anyone ever installed Brave

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think it's more, "may contain ads, if you opt-in to earning BAT."

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Make it

Contains a way to earn some kind of currency

So the browser itself is like an ad

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (39 replies)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not very professional.

It's not the 90s and they are not rivaling fast food chains.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have been using Brave for the last year and I did like it as a mobile browser. But today I noticed that when I was searching about abortion and etopic pregnancy (fact checking a really dumb article) that all of a sudden their AI crap was throwing "no results available" errors. I checked some other left leaning topics and sure enough it no longer gives you AI results. So I immediately uninstalled that shit from my phone because fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is not having AI results really a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

Not at all. I never wanted to see AI and it kept turning itself back on this was just the final push for me to uninstall it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it's more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 days ago

Brave has never had a good look.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fuck Brave, it's based on Chromium and contains crypto BS.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

Forget the Lion

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.

Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Well, they threatened students for creating a fork. So yeah, they are dead to me

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Desperate much??

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago

"Fire the Fox" would have been a better slogan

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago

"Was getting tired Brave, and noticed they mentioned Firefox in their ads. Was curious what that was and upon launching Firefox, immediately I felt something, my disappointment is no longer immeasurable, and my day is no longer ruined!"

brave = 0/5 🤮

Firefox = 6/5 😎

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

Ungoogled Chromium flatpak

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I've been using Vivaldi

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

The same Brave founded by the anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI CEO that doesn't believe that gay people should have the same rights as straight people? Color me shocked!

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (12 children)

It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Kind of funny they list their built-in, paid VPN as a positive feature and not a negative. Maybe they were running out of good things to say about... Themselves.

Granted, Mozilla also shot themselves in the foot by saying Firefox was better for not blocking ads by default, but that's a different story for a different day

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, you could do this with anything

nazism:

-✅️ Very terrifying and intimidating uniforms

Every other ideology:

-❌️ Does not have terrifying and intimidating uniforms*

*According to opinions of career nazis

This is what Brave is doing 🙄

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

After installing Brave I was getting some kind of failed login popup in my GNOME desktop environment. Uninstalled it and the popup disappeared. It gave me the heeby jeebies about Brave.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

I ditched this crap years ago. Fuck this Trojan horse.

[–] ininewcrow 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Broke one of the golden rules of advertising (at least the advertising lessons I learned from an old advertising guy I knew a long time ago)

Never mention your competition in your advertising .... because every time you do, you've given them free advertising.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Guess you're outside the EU or something? Cause it looks different over here, Firefox isn't mentioned here. Also they're at 4.9 instead of 4.7 for some reason. Either way, fuck brave.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago
load more comments
view more: next ›