Comment on Why I recommend against Brave.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is a very well written an thorough article and I highly recommend reading it. If you don’t want to however, here is a summary of the key points:
2020 — Brave injects referral links when visiting crypto wallets
2024 - So-called “privacy browser” deprecated advanced fingerprinting protection
Prop 8 was not merely proposed, it was approved by voters and actually banned same-sex marriage for several years before it was ruled unconstitutional.
Brendan Eich contributed to the actual banning of same-sex marriage in California for several years.
Corrected the mistake, thanks.
Thank you!
Oof. It seems that most of the users simply don’t care.
Might be nicer if they just didn’t care.
Check the comment section for the video version of this article by Niccolò, or the comment section of the post on r/browsers, or the replies whenever these issues are mentioned on Twitter, and so on, and you’ll find a bunch of brave people saying stuff like:
you unintentionally just made me like brave over firefox. now i can switch to a chromium based browser and not even feel bad about it
Yes i am installing Brave after this advertisment!
Thanks to this video I deleted Brave then redownloaded it
These were taken directly from the video. Throw in also some “stop inserting politics (that I don’t like) into tech” comments, and a few homophobes not even trying to hide it.
I don’t think every Brave user is a cunt, but fucking hell, are cunts seemingly attracted to Brave.
To folks bothered by this: know that the lead developer of Ladybird is also a big fan of Brendan Eich.
Every time someone uses Brave, I know I can ignore their opinion. They’re either a useful moron who is too dumb to look around them, or they support every single one of these things.
It’s no wonder why 4chan’s /g/ loves Brave.
I don’t care about the personal life of the CEO, and I don’t care about crypto, and everything else is a giant pile of nothing. Ads in the home screen? Like who gives a shit??
So the CEO of the company funding Prop 8 to overturn gay marriage is nothing? Stealing from the creators it claimed to be funding?
Good to know that’s where you stand.
As long as his personal life doesn’t influence the product, I’ll just throw him on the pile with all the other Nazi supporting CEOs. which is most of them.
Every time I mention that brave is a bad choice that is basically the response I get.
Tristus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t use Brave as my main browser but I think some of the accusations are not fair.
That said Brave is still #1 Browser I’d recommend someone installing. If I can I’d install Firefox myself, but on the phone it is what I recommend. I don’t trust my uncle to install Firefox and install uBlock etc. on top of it. But I trust him to install Brave and use it.
Most privacy minded Browsers like Libre Wolf have restrictions, like not enabling WebRTC out of the box, meaning using Zoom, Meet etc is not possible. There are people who are forced to use such software and not able to tweak with config files. Some people think just because they can do it, everybody should be able to. I think it is a good choice to recommend to people, very good in place replacement for Chrome, you can even take your bookmarks and addons with you