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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?
Ecosia is not bad and they plant trees whenever you do a search:)
Get yourself a naked chromium from their github. That’s what I do. Least amount of bloat this way.
Use Ungoogled Chromium instead
need a Chromium browser for technical reasons
With a similar use case, after messing around with Brave, then Ungoogled Chromium for a few years, I just reinstalled Google Chrome last month. I literally only need it for making sure webdesign stuff I do works okay in Chrome, and for the extremely rare websites I come across that refuses to work in Firefox 🤷 I didn’t change any settings or install even an adblocker, to make sure I’m testing as close to the “vanilla” experience as possible. I also don’t log into any accounts with it, so I don’t really care if Google sees what I do for that 2-3 page visits / month that I use it.
Secureblue’s Trivalent browser looks promising. Currently the only way to install it outside of secureblue is COPR on Fedora, but I’m sure there will soon be packages in the AUR, Gentoo, Nix, etc.
Other good options are Cromite, Thorium and Ungoogled Chromium
I’ve been using thorium as my secondary browser and it’s been very good. That’s the one I recommend.
Fedora works for me, thanks for the pointer
I’ve been using Vivaldi
Ungoogled Chromium flatpak
I tried it a few years ago. Ditched it because it’s just another chromium browser.
Firefox has been my main for about 6 years now.
I fell for it because Al Swiegerts book: “Automate the boring stuff” used it in the webscrape sample.
After that I just kept using it. And felt justified in my choice when I realized the only other browsers left are chrome and Safari.
I just learned that Safari is a fork on Konquorer. So, that’s interesting.
Personally I never even considered installing it because of its stupid name.
used brave for like a year, saved up however much in their stupid coin and when i went to get it, my browser reset how many ads i saw.
One feels there is an allegory for “too stupid to be afraid” buried in here.
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
They managed to piss off Tom Scott.
A thing I had not previously considered was possible.
Wait what? Imma need to see that
Their “Tip Me” system was opt-out.
In other words, they’d slap a “give this person money” button on other people’s websites, and then collect the money themselves, and even if they did send along every last cent to the actual person, that’s pretty well fucked.
What a pile of steaming bullshit
CEO is a bigot, too.
No elaboration on that ?
I thought it was common knowledge; he donated to some anti-LGBTQ political campaigns in the US which ultimately lead him to resign from Mozilla and start up his own browser. Which is good enough reason in my opinion to avoid it regardless of what ever else might be good about Brave.
Thanks for elaborating & you were kind enough to inform (unlike the fascist guttrotten clowns who disliked)
Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.
Fox around and find out
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.
Not to defend Brave, but this sounds like it was just a pop-up for the Gnome key wallet or something like that.
Sure, I just found it too annoying and the easiest solution was to uninstall Brave.
Yeah, it tries to use the keyring to store passwords every time you launch it even if you turned off password saving, the same applies to chrome and chromium browsers in general plus most password managers, tho not always. I tried to troubleshoot it, most forums online suggested to remove gnome key-rings if you are not using them but it kept reinstalling it. This plus brave being slower on mobile made me switch to firefox
Ah so that’s what it was!
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.
And it’s just bad to say, for example, about other person or country. Like some candidate for president in other liberal country will say “yes, we have issues, but hey, at least we are not like shitty Texas where abortion mostly illegal, so vote for us!”
Fennec for the phone, Qutebrowser for the desktop. Life is good.
Just curious, why Fennec for phones?
Desperate much??
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How is it more private, when the browser is the one handling your data to show you ads, on top of the websites trying to do the same. So, extra ads? Wtf.
Brave is also just essentially rebranded Chromium funded by an anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI right-wing CEO.
Brave comes with built in ad blocking.
Not impressive
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!
Yep, Brave is the butt-hurt edgelord of browsers.
And they made a donation to an anti gay marraige org on mozillas behalf.
Incorrect, he was CEO in 2014
WTF‽ Were they trying to frame Mozilla as anti-LGBT?
CEO was a cofounder of Mozilla Foundation. I think this is partly why he was pressured out shortly after taking the position.
