There’s a degoogled chromium you can use as backup if you like.
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hal_5700X@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use Brave as a backup browser. My main one is Firefox.
You can turn off the crypto stuff. You don’t have to use Brave Shields (in browser ad blocker). It can be turned off. Now you can use uBlock Origin or another ad blocker.
About the CEO, I can’t see nothing about his beliefs reflecting in his work. Looks like he kept them separated. I’m not for said beliefs.
HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 1 year ago
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here’s the links for all who care.
s_s@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Building a browser from source every security update sucks.
CheshireSnake@lemdit.com 1 year ago
I use Arch and Debian and I don’t think I ever had to build ungoogled chromium from source before (unless I wanted to, which I didn’t).
s_s@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The AUR binary is newish (1yr old).
It wasn’t there last time I gave ungoogled-chromium a shot.
HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 1 year ago
It’s just a normal application??
EricHill78@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thats what I use and it’s great.
the_q@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By using his product you’re contributing to his political views. You know that though, don’t you…
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By that logic. You can’t use nothing who going against beliefs. That’s impossible, because you can’t know every companies beliefs.
the_q@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But you can make changes once damning information is discovered or attempt to research products and services to try and minimize your own impact on others suffering.
prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
No you can’t bruh. You want to see changes? Go and win a fucking election. No one cares about your insignificant product choices.
LambLeeg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
[deleted]febra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m an Eastern European and I support LGBT people, because I’m one of them. Why are you talking as if you’re speaking for all Eastern Europeans?
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hate Brave quite enough for purely technical and business model reasons. The shitty political views of the CEO are just an added anti-bonus.
pozbo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why use a product that pays a bad actor tho?
There are other options, free options.
InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That you can is besides the point. You shouldn’t need to. If the first thing I need to think about after installing it is “well, let’s see what garbage is in here that I need to turn off”, then any trust I would have for it has already gone out the window. Especially important odor a browser where that is kind of the main differentiating aspect.
CheshireSnake@lemdit.com 1 year ago
Firefox has telemetry. You can opt out and delete it, but by that logic it shouldn’t be trusted either. Also, I doubt people who really care about privacy don’t harden firefox. Being able to is not besides the point.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Idk if I’m doing something different but for me, the crypto stuff seems to be opt in.
Like you have to create a wallet it seems, they don’t make one for you.
CosmicDetour@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The article (and these comments) are rife with half-truths and pitchforks. (And I use Firefox).
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Beside**
It still has to be feature rich and work or of the box. I haven’t been back to Firefox in a few years, but it was pretty dumpy by comparison to brave. I’ll look again but the key feature of a browser to me isn’t “it’s not Google, it’s Foss, and I don’t have to disable stuff”.
I’m gonna hope you’re a fellow Linux user if that’s the perspective you take.
InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wasn’t arguing for Firefox or FOSS. It just seems to me that if your selling point is trust and privacy (at least it is what I see people citing as Brave’s Big Thing), you should be as transparent and irreproachable in that regard as possible. Having said this, of course, good features can be enough for the trade-off to be worth it (this is true of pretty much every piece of software out there, Chrome included), depending t each user finds more important.
capr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By that logic, Firefox would be in the same boat. After initially installing, you have to turn off data collection in the settings and disable Pocket in the config.