I’ve used the browser for a few months. Recently I’ve noticed it having lots of performance issues. Also, the search engine is pretty bad and also has errors.
I’m considering moving on from Brave. Anyone else have thoughts?
I’ve used the browser for a few months. Recently I’ve noticed it having lots of performance issues. Also, the search engine is pretty bad and also has errors.
I’m considering moving on from Brave. Anyone else have thoughts?
Brave is just a reskinned Google Chrome.
Last time I checked, if you type chrome://restart into the adress bar of Brave or Chrome, both browsers restart. Safe to assume you’re no less compromised using Brave over Chrome.
Might as well use Chrome to avoid the weird monetization features Brave has that sounds like a grift/scam.
Brave is built on Chromium not Chrome, one is open source the other is not.
Brave does not connect to google or do anything with google.
Mozilla themselves even acknowledge Brave is a good provacy based platform.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/brave/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9374407/authors
Mozilla is an American NGO with way too many ties to the private tech sector.
If I’m going to trust Mozilla’s word with my privacy I might as well entrust the NED with my democracy.
Chromium is overwhelmingly maintained by Google. Brave Software, Inc. is in the private sector, it’s a publicly traded company, and the biggest change it makes to the Chromium code base is a ‘rewards’ system and its own advertising platform.
There are far too many conflicts of interest to be trusting them.
This is false. Unlike Mozilla, Brave is actually funded by US DoD and Peter Thiel directly. Brave lies about everything it can get away with, and its Manifest V2 support will end in January 2023. Enjoy crippled adblocker, lying company and crypto malware for some BATshit.
Going by your stupid logic, Linux is also chock filled with NSA backdoors, and Riseup is also compromised. Do not spread FUD.
How the fuck did you read that comment and think it’s pro-Brave?
This is some anarchist level of shitting on Mozilla, so that you end up helping Brave by omission of argument. Anarchists also do this kind of mental gymnastics where they will say any government is bad so every place with a government is evil and support for proletariat does not matter.
And the context? I’m primarily shitting on Brave, using that paragraph to shit on Mozilla for saying Brave is good.
And Mozilla says Brave is good because they’re part of the same ecosystem. The fact that they tried to install Brendan Eich as their CEO is a big wrong-kind-of-red flag, they only offloaded him because it wasn’t worth the public image hit and they would absolutely have kept him on if they could get away with it because they developed from that point in the same direction: Eich immediately went and founded Brave and set out with its ‘privacy respecting’ advertising (endorsed by Mozilla), and Mozilla starts ‘partnering’ with fucking Zuck to make ‘privacy respecting’ advertising on Meta.
On the Mozilla board sits Nicole Wong, former deputy CTO of the Obama White House, former legal counsel for Google on censorship issues, current senior adviser to Albright Stonebridge.
Brian Behlendorf, former CTO of the World Economic Forum.
Helen Turvey, CEO of Shuttleworth Foundation, salary paid for out of a space tourist billionaire’s pocket from the funds he keeps in the Isle of Man tax haven.
Chaired by Mitchell Baker, IP lawyer…
I don’t think I need to keep going. Fucking hell.
You’re right. Do you have a suggestion? Heard good things about Mozilla recently but not sure I fully trust them? Feel like if you don’t go with open-source, the project will always get compromised down the line.
Also gotta say the Brave search engine is basically unusable.
Mozilla Firefox is completely open source. However, if you want ultimate privacy, go with Librewolf. It’s a fork of Firefox that changes a bunch of configuration settings to increase privacy. The default settings do break many sites, so you may need to do some tinkering with those, but otherwise, it’s great.