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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (40 children)

There is nothing wrong with Brave. It's a great browser. I like the cryptocurrency aspect of it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

There is plenty wrong with Brave, the business.

Brave, the browser, is very useful in a practical sense. It has some nice features out of the box, and if you disable the naughty out of the box features it's pretty decent. However, you have to trust that each update from the developer is good, and past experience raises very serious questions with this particular business.

Maybe you might be seeing some returns from the cryptocurrency. My undestanding is that users have lost far more than they've gained - and that's before you actually look into the true value of what users are sacrificing in exchange for their tokens. Meanwhile, Brave are pulling a steady revenue making money from their users, milking them just so.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use Brave as a secondary browser mostly for government websites because sometimes my firefox privacy settings breaks them and since many of them are poorly designed a technical issue over your account may result in hours on the phone to resolve.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why not use chromium or one of the many other chrome forks? What about Brave works better?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure I've read this news a couple of times now the past week or weeks?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It’s only a matter of time until Eich sells all of Brave’s users down the river.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I currently use brave on iOS to block YouTube ads. Is there any other option right now? I’d be willing to switch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best solution on iOS is Yattee. You can add Piped or Invidious instances as locations and stream ad-free YouTube from there. Another solution that doesn't involve Piped and Invidious is AdGuard. Open a YouTube link in Safari, hit actions, then hit Block YouTube Ads (by AdGuard).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Name an alternative browser that has the same level of ability to block trackers built in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

why does it need to be built in? What's wrong with downloading one extension and being set afterwards?