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Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 147 points 3 years ago (14 children)

Very strongly worded, but yes.

Brave have had a history of controversy since their inception. Every time something happens, the CEO went on a marketing campaign across social media and drummed up enough new users to drown it out. However the attitude of the business is clear: it would take a very small sack of money for Brave to sell out its users.

If you're going to use a Chromium web browser, there are non-commercial open source projects that don't have a history of shady shit. However Firefox forks are better.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Which forks do you suggest?

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Not the OP, but here are some alternatives anyway.

    Firefox:

    Chrome:

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, but why? What’s wrong with Firefox and how do the forks address those points?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago*

    I posted the list of alternatives simply because OP asked for forks.

    What’s wrong with Firefox

    Me posting this list shouldn't be an implication that I believe Firefox to be bad. I'm offering alternatives as the OP requests.

    and how do the forks address those points?

    Every one of the links I shared have detailed information about how their product mutates the original Firefox or Chromium browser. Do you really need me to copy-paste that information into a comment?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Other people have given desktop examples. For Android, I use Mull, which also has a companion Android System Webview implementation (Chromium) called Mulch. These are baked into the DivestOS ROM, which itself is a fork of LineageOS.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Does it support extensions like Firefox?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Yes, full support for desktop Firefox extensions. I think it also comes with uBlock Origin by default.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Just saw it does support custom add-on collections like Firefox beta and nightly... I'm going to give it a try

    Edit: it supports startpage as search engine out of the box as well!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    All I can say is try DivestOS :)

    My opinion: It doesn't have full customisation (compared to eg. CRDroid) but it does at least have call recording and long press back button = kill app process, along with traffic monitors for the status bar. All regular phone calls have a banner at the top reminding you that they're not secure (as opposed to E2E encrypted chat calls over the internet) and Location permission settings seem to be a bit more expansive than other ROMs.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Absoutely. I mostly use Firefox because I'm so familiar with it by now but the privacy is generally much better and it doesn't have a massive monopoly on the web. I'm just a lot more comfortable with it.

    When I have to, I use ungoogled-chromium on desktop and Bromite on mobile. I recommend those to anyone familiar with Chrome.

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