If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection. It also offers several quality-of-life features and services, like a VPN and Tor access. I mean, it’s even listed on the reputable PrivacyTools website. Why am I telling you to steer clear of this browser, then?

  • @legion02@lemmy.world
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    1997 days ago

    The CEO of brave is a homophobic bigot if that helps push anyone over the edge for changing their browser. It was the last straw for me.

    • Baphomet
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      87 days ago

      Probably also has some right wing bias as well. That’s probably one of the reasons they included goggles in Brave search for right wing content.

    • @Viri4thus@feddit.org
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      7 days ago

      That pretty much does it, yes. Staying away from brave.

      Edit: that Netscape team, holy fuck, Andreesen also came from that cesspool, what a fucking drudge of parasites.

      • @ragas@lemmy.ml
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        You do know that Firefox is essentially Netscape rebooted, right?

        Also I don’t really know what you are trying to say here. Netscape was definitely a better option than Internet Explorer.

    • Singletona082
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      237 days ago

      That was the headliner reason for me.

      The rest was just ‘Alright, it isn’t enough this guy is a piece of shit, he’s pushing a shitty product.’

    • kingthrillgore
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      227 days ago

      That’s not even his worst crime. His worst crime was inventing JavaScript.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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      207 days ago

      God damnit.

      Every browser I switched to since Firefox has been a good user experience, and then I find out some horrible bullshit.

      Is there any safe browser that isn’t run by hateful assholes?

      • exu
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        317 days ago

        Firefox? Mozilla are just stupid, not really hateful

      • @Nima@leminal.space
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        77 days ago

        i found one called waterfox that is a nice little firefox fork ive been using. super chill.

        I’ve been loving it.

        • @AustralianSimon@lemmy.world
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          Might give this a crack. Been waiting on Ladybird to come to PC.

          Edit: OK it really doesn’t work well with bitwarden on mobile. Normal FF works fine but not this one.

          Edit2: ended up installing bitwarden add-on in the app and that resolved the issue of the phone level app not working.

        • @PeteZa@lemm.ee
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          27 days ago

          I was about to say something about Waterfox too! It feels like old Firefox.