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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser

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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser

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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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    The fact that its main 2 gimmicks are a shitty ad blocker and integrated cryptocurrency should be enough of a red flag, honestly. Just use Firefox, people!

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      I downloaded it just yesterday, and I uninstalled it after reading this article. Back to Firefox for me!

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      Firefox is significantly slower though…

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        Not really that significant when you’re using it, I promise. I’m usually all for speed, but FF has better functionality than the competition.

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          Speed is significant though. “Functionality” (whatever you mean by that) is less important.

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            Built-in features are much better, respects privacy (compared to Google), add-ons have more possibilities, etc.

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      No fuck Mozilla

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          I know you lefties love supporting deplatforming and censorship but I don’t

          https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

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      I am using Brave on iOS mainly because of its superb YouTube support - It has a built in ad block, can download videos offline and play minimized. Is there any way I can achieve this with any other browser? I would switch immediately.

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        If you want to swap teams, Android has Revanced. Otherwise I don’t think so.

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      Firefox doesn’t block ads on my iPad. Only reason I still use brave

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        Correct me if I’m wrong, but i believe that’s because it’s not really Firefox, everything on apple devices is forced to use safari, all you do with the “Firefox” installation is change the ui.

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          You are not wrong, no correction needed. However, their “Firefox Go” browser blocks ads, so it’s a little annoying that the full browser doesn’t. I only really use brave for YouTube on it anyway. Firefox I still use for normal browsing there and everywhere else.

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        You can install add-ons, at least on the android version. One of them is Ublock!

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