Stahlreck

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[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Using Chromium at all is supporting Google’s dominance over the market

Of course it does but that is a moot point and a different discussion altogether. It doesn't change the fact that Brave is fully open source, even their shitty stuff and that it's better for privacy than using a proprietary browser like people here suggest. It also doesn't change that Chromium has a better security model than Gecko.

I personally right now prefer FF (Librewolf and Mull) for different reasons still. The Chromium dominance is...well it is what it is. Definitely not the reason why I use FF. It's a losing battle. FF has been losing users forever now. The few % market share it still has will not change that Google is going to "win". When the EU forces Apple to open up iOS for Chromium the last "wall" that is in the way of total Chromium dominance will fall. FF will not do anything about that except just exist until either too many websites break or someone does something about Google controlling Chromium. Until then I'll just choose whichever browser fits my needs in terms of FOSS, privacy but also features. Right now FF is good enough despite them lacking behind in security (severely even on mobile) and I'm happy to use it.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think Brave can "hide" these infos. At most you could try to spoof them somehow to something else. If you would hide them, that inherently would make you stick out as well since the website would see that you're hiding stuff :D

You would have to make your Brave browser look exactly like the Tor browser from a websites point of view to blend in. No clue if that is actually possible. A website can read surprisingly a lot of system information from your browser.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Doesn't that kinda defeat half of Tors purpose though? Tor works best when you have a large crowd that all looks the same. Using Brave or any other browsers makes you stick out like a sore thumb because most likely not many people do this. This is the reason why the Tor people recommend only ever using the Tor browser and also not install any other extensions onto it and so on.

If you don't care about that, that's fine but then you don't really need Tor either way.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If that was a prerequisite to use or trust open source software than most FOSS stuff would be worthless. It is not however. Many people like to use Linux but probably have not read the whole source code. Doesn't matter, there's plenty people that do and being open by nature is just more transparent. If they do something shady someone will most likely see it. With closed source software that is not the case.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

No, it is just basically a FF fork with Arkenfox baked in. That is it.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 1 points 2 years ago

Why would you ever use Opera vs Brave if you care about privacy? Brave at the end of the day is fully open source. Yes that is a huge plus even if you yourself cannot review the code.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Does this all matter though? Afaik the browser if fully open source, even the crypto stuff so all the shady stuff would be detected (and has as in your examples). Like all of the issues you linked at this point are years in the past. I don't use Brave personally but it being completely FOSS is a huge plus even if the company itself might be weird. On the other hand you have something like Vivaldi that looks like "the good guys" but you'll always have to trust them as well because they're not fully open source.

I use FF but you just cannot deny that using a Chromium based browser has many security advantages over Gecko, especially on mobile. I takes Mozilla seemingly years and years to implement security features like Chromium. They don't put the necessary priority behind this.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 7 points 2 years ago

Pretty neat I would say. Definitely better than just relying hard on Musk social

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess. I do have the luxury of having a 4090 and I've simply seen much smaller games with similar graphics run...similar if not much worse than this. Perhaps others have a different experience but besides the frames being lower than I would like I'm kinda glad such a huge game doesn't constantly crash for me or stutter every time is press the "sprint" button in a crowded area.

I do hope for improvement though

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 6 points 2 years ago

Unreal is older than their engine no? And everyone uses that...so what does this even mean?

The difference is that Epic barely makes games. They have their Fortnite which they can put in some minor effort to keep the money flowing and otherwise they can focus on the engine. Maybe with MS now being behind Bethesda they can also put in more work into their engine...maybe. We'll see.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He's kinda right though. You are partially too, the game doesn't run great but it runs fine. Definitely not dogshit. Hogwarts ran way worse for what it was with similar performance but also tons of stuttering on the best setups not to mention lots of crashing in multiple big AAA games this year. Starfield afaik has none of that, it just has lower than expected FPS but not terribly so.

[–] Stahlreck@feddit.ch 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well Nintendo has a shitton of tribalism considering how anti consumer they are in general. Fromsoft just has a lot of good reputation...justifiably so

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