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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Fine, but, like, don't recommend Vivaldi. Also, if you disable the Brave ads, you're not really supporting them, while still getting the benefits.

— Sent from Librewolf

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don’t use it because the UI and logo are ugly

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it was a similar article that made me switch from Brave to Ungoogled Chromium a few weeks ago, as a backup browser for the handful of sites that don't work in Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I only use brave for iOS because it is the best there is

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I use Brave as a second browser (mainly to separate different activities) and did not have any issues with it apart from dragging tabs between monitors (it creates an additional empty tab sometimes when doing this). Turned off all unnecessary stuff right when I first launched it and that's it. No bloat, no issues, just works. Didn't know about this CEO controversy but seeing as it was a long time ago, don't think it's a valid reason to not use Brave. And both logo and name are cool.
It's a solid option which we don't really have a lot of in open source space

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Brave is terrible. But while not entirely relevant, so is DuckDuckGo. These mfs have enough money to appear in superbowl commercials lol. How can anyone trust their privacy claims when their shit is in the US and I don’t believe they’ve been audited. I suppose it’s good to find alternative results, but for privacy? Come on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Genuine question: I use brave currently. I really heavily on multiple profiles (work, side-business, personal) that are easy to switch between or have active all at the same time in separate windows.

I tried firefox, but in my experience, the method for changing “profiles” was unintuitive and cumbersome. Was I just doing it wrong, or does Firefox not have that same kind of feature?

I really wanna use Firefox, but that’s a deal-breaker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

use container tabs, not separate profiles. profiles are for installing separate sets of addons and the like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s why I need the separate profiles. Some work add-ons I don’t care to have on personal, and vice versa. I like totally segmented preferences.

Edit: I get it now. It’s worth the overlapping add ons. This should do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've never had a problem with them and I really like the Facebook container feature for when I have to use Messenger to contact friends

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't use it because if I had to pause to laugh at the self-seriousness every time I opened a browser, I would get even less work done than I do now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best browsers are forked ones. Use librewolf,mullvad,ungoogled chromium,vanadium,mulch (android).

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