• yyyesss?@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 minutes ago

      is this the one that requires you to log in? i tried one that looks just like that and i loved the design but forced sign-in is a deal breaker for me. how private can it be if it demands to know who i am?

  • jdr@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Software doesn’t exist silly, it’s imaginary, like numbers.

    But browsers are double fake.

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
    382·
    5 hours ago

    I’ve used Firefox based browsers for as long as I can remember and I’d rather slam my dick in a car door than switch to garbage like brave. Every single one of those browsers is the same bloated Google-flavoured bullshit wearing a different fucking clown costume. Firefox is the only browser that doesn’t make me feel like I’m being rawdogged by corporate spyware every time I open a tab… Piss on carpet !!

    • Zink@programming.dev
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Yeah, I don’t do web stuff, but I use the browser every day for all the microsoft stuff my employer uses and it’s 99% LibreWolf and then 1% switching to Firefox ESR that cane preinstalled on debian.

      If something didn’t work at that point, I’d probably fire up my Windows VM I use for testing before I’d install even chromium. I’ve installed it before but there’s just no need now.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 hour ago

      They do a ton of sketchy shit. I was skeptical, but this article convinced me.

      If you need to use a Chromium browser, there are a shit-ton that aren’t Brave. I use Ungoogled Chromium.

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
      35·
      5 hours ago

      Aside from the homophobia, Brave also runs an ad network so I’m skeptical about their privacy claims.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      192·
      5 hours ago

      Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google’s dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Vigilink is the vendor they use to do this iirc. Link hijacking for referral revenue is wild thing to base a business on, but I’ve seen more sketch things running around the ad tech industry.

    • prunerye@slrpnk.net
      236·
      5 hours ago

      Brendan Eich. Specifically his stance against same sex marriage. He was pressured to resign from Mozilla, which he cofounded, due to his support of California’s prop 8. Then he founded Brave. The Brave browser also has some annoying crypto and AI features turned on by default. I think it’s a perfectly fine piece of software. I use it as a second browser.

      • jdr@lemmy.ml
        22·
        2 hours ago

        It’s impossible to be good at programming and morality at the same time.

        That’s why I never tried with either.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
      171·
      5 hours ago

      Their very shady history + their very bigoted owner + current shady tactics

      Edit: and on top of that it’s Chromium based

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      101·
      5 hours ago

      Brave was found altering links to some crypto services like Binance to include their referral and basically profit from unknowing users, they also run an ad network, they rely on Chromium, thereby endorsing Google’s dominance over the modern Web, they are very crypto-positive, which is a problem for many in the open-source community, and on top of that, everything else others have said.

  • texture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    5 hours ago

    im just gonna link this image the next time some uninformed dork asks me about this shit browser