Which is why I moved on to Helium... which probably like all other browsers have downsides, some political.
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Careful. Trying to sell Brave as a homophobe web browser won't hurt it like you guys think.
I could care less about the personal beliefs of the creator if the product works as intended, especially if funding the creator is optional
Persistent and unavoidable ads are the reason I don’t use original Firefox, so it’s the reason I don’t use Brave anymore. There were other issues too, and although it’s supposedly open source, the Palantir connection is shadier than their Prop 8 connection, which I don’t even consider that relevant since it was so long ago
Persistent and unavoidable ads are the reason I don’t use original Firefox
Why are you not using uBlock Origin?
No, I mean the ads which are permanently pinned to the startpage. Of course I use uBlock Origin with Firefox forks, as most people do, but that doesn't prevent the pinned ads from appearing in the startpage, at least not for me.
Why don't|you set it to open new tabs with a blank page? I have that as my setting and I forgot there were even ads on the start page.
Yeah, I guess I could do that, but aside from that, it is resource-intensive compared to forks.
Firefox does have ads on by default for the startpage, but they can be turned off in the settings in a fairly easy and obvious way. So even as obnoxious and demoralising ads, I don't think it is fair to say these ones are "persistent and unavoidable". (It's not easy to remove the Firefox logo from the new tab page, and that annoys me, but I wouldn't call it an ad.)
Well, I'm dumb and lazy, I don't want to have to do a bunch of shit I guess.
I'm hoping something happens with Ladybird eventually, but who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I will say the Ladybird leader Andreas Kling doesn't have the best politics either, but it's definitely preferable to Brave. I'm excited for Servo as well, since it's finally been revived after getting dumped by Mozilla. It seems more technically interesting me too, beyond just being "another browser". For the next year or two Zen Browser is going to remain my go-to, though.
I only stopped using Firefox when an update broke GPU acceleration on my PC. Would be happy to switch back if it gets fixed, but it seems they're more interested in adding AI slop, which doesn't bode well for the last bastion of anti-Google monopoly resistance. 🤷
They have said they're adding an off switch for all their AI stuff in Q1 next year. We'll see how well it works, though.
Same reason they used Chrome. “What else is there?”
Software discoverability is kind of bad these days, and getting worse.
Ive found alternativeto.net pretty useful.
In the past, I’d classify that as SEO spam, but it has become kinda useful now that the rest of the internet has deteriorated so much.
The first place I usually search is GitHub, or open source app repos. Or niche communities that might be into the particular software ecosystem.
I used brave for a while, I got 10$ I also got 10$ from Honey, apparently only scams give me anything
Peter Theil is the primary investor in Brave.
For those not in the know, Peter Theil is a MAGA Christian-Nationalist fascist, and owner of Palantir.
Palantir, is the military industrial complex company Trump has entrusted to create a mass surveillance network on US citizens, completely against the 4th Amendment, and dwarfing the NSA spying that was exposed by Snowden.
You can garuntee any activity you do in Brave is being tracked and sent to that network.
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