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should i switch to linux?
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why do you think firefox is better? i generally don't care about a corp Politics or historical errors. i care about current product as of now.
Past behavior can be a pretty good indicator of future behavior. Brave has done several shady things, and they will do more shady things in the future. It's just stupid to ignore that.
Firefox is unlikely to ever sell your data or redirect websites or participate in a cryptoscam or show you advertisements with an adblocker on. Brave has done, at one point or another, all of that.
Plus firefox is not manifest v3, so you can actually have a safe browsing experience whereas all chromium based browsers are now inherently more vulnerable to malware thanks to google.
Could you explain why? While at it, would you be so kind to mention why security-focused projects like GrapheneOS and secureblue stick to Chromium-based browsers despite that?
https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
Chromium and their particular fork have much better exploit hardening via sandboxing.
My understanding is Firefox has better anti-fingerprinting and uBlock origin via manifest v2 support (or v2 features ported to v3).
The argument often used is malicious ads. Sandboxing and hardening largely mitigates ads that contain exploits, but it doesn't protect against social engineering, crypto mining, tracking, etc.
So I guess it comes down to your threat model and desired experience.
I personally prefer the uBlock origin experience, but an ad free experience and escape from targeted advertising was my target opsec when venturing into privacy.
Thanks! Your comment prompted me to check out this entry in uBlock Origin's documentation that also underlines why Firefox(-based browsers) work better for the purposes of content-blocking.
Can't agree more.
You could click the link already provided above. Just the Table of Contents at the top gives you a good overview about issues with Brave without reading anything else...