From article:
If you have the Brave Browser installed on your Windows devices, then you may also have Brave VPN services installed on the machine. Brave installs these services without user consent on Windows devices.
More reason to ditch the crypto bro browser.
Just use Thorium
I’m considering it, but how does thorium handle Google’s recent Web manifest updates that break true ad blockers like uBlock origin?
I’ve been pretty happy with the customizability of librefox with the userchrome.css and ublock still works with YouTube.
ugh, don’t touch my network stack
Not that I’m defending anybody but how is this touching your “network stack” any more than any other application?
because a VPN is both a new network interface, and it has the ability to change how your traffic routes. Most applications don’t do that.
None of these companies know the first thing about consent, it’s disgusting
Just because I bought something from you doesn’t mean I consent to you penetrating my inbox
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726
And crypto are disabled by default.
No, I wont’ ditch it. It’s the best browser out there, right now, since scummy/corrupt/hypocrite Mozilla (which, remember, is in bed with Google, Amazon and Facebook while criticizing them) decided that Firefox is just a side project for them and they’re deceiving people making them believe that donations fund FF development.
Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.
“In bed with”=takes their money to have their search engine and lets you change it in 30 seconds while being completely open source
I don’t see the problem.
Tbf, changing the default search engine probably has the effect that the vast majority of users will stick with it. So, although it is pretty easy for you and me to change the search engine, it still promotes Google quite a lot and thus undermines the independent character of Firefox as a whole.
Absolutely. I would prefer they didn’t have google as the default, but I’d rather have Firefox with good funding and google as default than firefox with very little funding.
That’s a fair point, yes
And brave being built on chromium is somehow markedly better?
*9 seconds
You’re the one who made it shitty. But much to crap on the bed then get up and leave.
No one told you to ditch it. But can you fanboii a little less aggressively, please?
Have you ever interacted with a Brave user? No, they can’t.
I swear they all have some sort of brain slug that makes them cultish and just generally unlikeable
If you look at what a raging tool the CEO is and the implications of the browser’s association with crypto (no matter how optional), I think that Brave just attracts that type of person
Makes sense given that the Brave CEO is a member of an actual cult.
Which one is that?
the mormon church. it’s the reason he donates money to anti-lgbt causes.
True open source projects like LibreWolf, Ungoogled Chromium > Sketchy world of Brave
I applaud LibreWolf’s efforts, but the hard-coded timezone makes it unusable for me. Other than that, it’s a great browser. I used it several months until the timezone confusion got the best of me.
What’s the deal with the timezone?
Yes, what is the deal? I can’t say that I’ve noticed any issues. Am in UK if that makes a difference. And I usually run it through Proton VPN.
While I’ve never used LibreWolf before (I use Waterfox), that probably does make a difference as the UK is UTC+0.
I switched to LibreWolf after I learned that Waterfox was/is ran by an advertisement company.
Today they should be independant again, however my trust in them is forever lost.
I do not subscribe to guilt by association or being that concerned about privacy.
Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.
Nah I’m gonna pile on. Firefox is better.
You seem stable
I’d say so
https://lemm.ee/comment/4924770
solution that wipes the extremely profitable, For-Profit, Mozilla Corporation off your Internet
Mozilla should be removed from the entire internet but hey, it’s a beginning.
