@cyrus thanks for sharing this
@cyrus it doesn't cost me a dime, runs well and actually blocks ads. All that other stuff ain't my problem
@cyrus please let people use whatever the fuck they want, it isnt like you are personally harmed by their software choices
@ttk@ruhr.social I am actually personally harmed by supporting someone that has a lot of money to spend on illegalizing same-sex marriage and being transphobic, thank you :)
@cyrus Name an alternative that's no worse
@xi_timpin anything from Mozilla!?
Mozilla is shitting the bed but at least they aren't ran by a bigoted asshole!?!?
@cyrus Doesn't sound convincing, tbh.
@xi_timpin
@th3rdsergeevich @cyrus I'm trialling Vivaldi on another machine...
@xi_timpin @cyrus Zen is looking really promising
the pet project of the person kicked out of Mozilla for continuing to defend harmful political donations.
This is a bit misleading. For whatever reason, Mozilla didn’t actually kick him out — and even offered him another job!
From their FAQ [blog.mozilla.org]:
Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position.
It’s even reiterated later on when they talk about how “[the] Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla” and that “Mozilla employees expressed a wide range of views on Brendan’s appointment as CEO: the majority of them positive and in support of his leadership”
@cyrus What I have never understood is why people would praise a browser that looks like malware (with ads that guided users to get crypto "awards") as being on the same level as Firefox, especially in terms of privacy protection? Just because it doesn't look like it was developed by a big company?
@cyrus Like at least "You are a browser, just do your job as a browser. Thank you"?
@aleksana because from a purely technical standpoint brave does implement a lot of the anti-fingerprinting techniques we've come to know in Firefox.
That doesn't excuse any of the other things, though.
@cyrus Addendum that seems to be missing from the article: they also collected donations 'for creators' without their consent. This became known mainly due to Tom Scott talking about it but it'd been ongoing for longer than that.
@cyrus Thanks for this, it is useful. You recommend Firefox at the end of the article for security but its market share continues to fall and that makes me nervous about sustainability.
@Onlineadviser @cyrus
Article: "If you want a privacy-focused web browser, use Firefox or Vivaldi."
I'm enjoying Vivaldi myself right now. It has a lot of thoughtful design features for both privacy and the user interface
@Onlineadviser @cyrus it's not like browsers make it hard to migrate between them. Even if Mozilla goes bankrupt and no one takes over, you can just switch to Vivaldi or so.
@Onlineadviser oh this isn't my article for once
@Onlineadviser @cyrus if you're not going to use it, then its market share will continue dropping
@cyrus The hate and crypto arguments are bad enough on their own, but even just considering the software itself, I never understood Brave's appeal to begin with. It's quite literally just Chromium with an adblocker & a few extra built-in extensions
It markets itself as a privacy-first browser, yet it's still owned by a for-profit corporation reliant on crypto and ads
So, if you're serious about privacy, why would you ever choose Brave over something like LibreWolf or ungoogled-chromium + μBO…?