I don’t know if I am missing a point or not but I don’t exactly quiet get the hype as to me, it just chrome with poor man’s uBlock Origin and their own crypto in the mix.

Like how it that different from me using ether Librewolf or even Google Chromium and install uBlock Origin compare to Brave?

    • HiddenLayer5
      7·
      2 years ago

      I’ve never seen any real benefit of Brave over just the vanilla unGoogled Chromium fork if you really do want Chromium, or Firefox/one of the unMozilla’d forks if you want just any engine.

        • HiddenLayer5
          9·
          2 years ago

          Honestly, their “make money while you browse while making money for your favorite websites all while maintaining privacy” thing is so on the nose for “too good to be true” that I’m genuinely disappointed by how many people who are supposedly pro privacy and FLOSS development fall for it. If someone promises the world, they’re almost always either misguidedly deceiving themselves, or maliciously deceiving you.

  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    2 years ago

    Yes.

    Brave Software’s CEO is Brendan Eich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

    Eich resigned from Mozilla in 2014 after it turned out that he’d made political donations against California’s same-sex marriage equality bill. Since then, he’s got press for being some kind of COVID denialist https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html

    So, as well as the crypto bullshit and advertising cooperation that others mentioned, company’s run by a shitlord.

  • slacktoid
    9·
    2 years ago

    Nope. You are fine. Not missing shit. Only plebs rave about how awesome it. The only thing it could possibly have going for it are privacy focused defaults (maybe?)

  • sub_ubi
    102·
    2 years ago

    All browsers are disappointing, and I don’t think the market is capable of producing a good one.

    • Sr Estegosaurio
      8·
      2 years ago

      The web itself has become a disappointing place to be honest. (Obviusly we stil have cool sites here and there but I mean generally.)

  • §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ
    91·
    2 years ago

    Guess whenever Google rolls out the update to disable tracker blocking as we currently know it, we’ll be firmly able to answer this question. It’s unclear to me if this will impact Brave but if it doesn’t then this will show Brave was worth the hype more or less I think.

    Edit: I love FF but something’s just run better on chromium, I have FF as default with Brave as a back up

    • Ephera
      5·
      2 years ago

      Well, what Google wants to introduce is a completely arbitrary limit to the number of filtering rules, so increasing that constant in the code should be no trouble at all.

      Having said that, ad blocking effectiveness is lower on Chrome-based browsers already today: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
      Padding those flaws out or offering similar functionality to uBO in their custom ad blocker, that does take some effort.

  • uthredii@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    I don’t trust brave but it does have features out of the box that no other browser has:

    • web torrents
    • Tor in private tabs
    • The Kitten Cultist@jeremmy.mlOP
      4·
      2 years ago

      How does Brave Tor compared to the regular Tor browser? It is just work as the same or is there few stuff they added to make it much better?

      • Sr Estegosaurio
        3·
        2 years ago

        Do not use it. Use only the Tor Browser since it’s designed to make all users look the same. (Preferrably inside of a Whonix VM.)

      • uthredii@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’m not too sure sorry, I haven’t really used it much other than testing it out when I found out a about it.

        I would imagine you have less control over specific Tor settings, but I am not 100% sure.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    41·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been using Brave since it was based on Gecko Muon, and all it’s worth is ad-blocking by default. If you know how to install uBlock Origin, Brave won’t offer you any advantages.

    • Arthur BesseA
      1·
      2 years ago

      Brave was never based on Gecko. (Originally it was based on (a fork of) Electron! 🤣)

  • SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org
    21·
    2 years ago

    Sometimes I need Chromium. I always want an ad-blocker, though. So the two best choices are Vivaldi and Brave.

    Vivaldi is closed-source, which is bad. But it has a lot of good customization options, and is transparent about its monetization.

    Brave is open-source, but tries to get you into crypto junk. You can turn that off, but you have to do it for every different machine.

    I currently use a combination of Librewolf and Vivaldi. But my setup shifts around a lot.

  • Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    2 years ago

    It’s decent. Seems pretty secure but I’m not an expert. I used Opera / Firefox for over a decade and they did too many overhauls that I don’t care for them anymore.

    • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
      61·
      2 years ago

      So? .onion addresses only leverages some load to the nodes, it doesn’t make your connection more anonymous/secure.

      • Sr Estegosaurio
        4·
        2 years ago

        I agree on the fact that .onion addresses are not security and/or privacy silver bullets (Both twitter and reddit have one for example) you still need to trust the service provider. But with that said for certain things they can add a layer of anonimity that’s not really possible to archive without them.

        But Brave the search engine and brave the browser are two different things tho.