I use it because it has a built in adblocker, and well it just works.

There is some crypto bullfuck and AI shit you can easily opt out off, and some talk about some CEO making homophobic comments.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    723·
    18 hours ago

    Not to be antagonistic, but

    • chrome fork - much of the browser world is this
    • crypto shit - opt in not mandatory
    • leaky VPN - opt in not mandatory
    • bad search - opt in not mandatory
    • ad engine - opt in not mandatory

    So, basically, it’s a chrome fork, and some people prefer chrome based browsers, so it’s purely preference?

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      The main issues a lot of the FF purists on this site take with Brave is-

      1. its a chrome fork, which is a hard stop for them, and thats a good enough reason alone to avoid a product given how anti-corporate and anti-google the residents of this site are.

      2. the systems in the opt-in list are still part of the application. There is an anxiety that the developer may decide at a future time that those features are not opt-in/enabled by default after an update.

      So the natural response is to advocate for browsers that simply do not have those features and are open-source so that users can verify rather than trust the dev team to not put features like that in the product. Or rigoursly vet every update installed on your system to prevent that stuff from being installrd in an update, which is not viable for most people… (Run apt update/upgrade and manually approve every package change, we will see you in a few days).

    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      173·
      7 hours ago

      You know what’s better than that?

      The browser world that’s not a chrome fork, and not full of crypto and AI SHIT, and without a bigoted CEO

      Waterfox, Librewolf, Ironfox, Fennec, Ladybird, etc

      • vimmiewimmie@slrpnk.net
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Is ladybird even out? I saw something about it but I thought looking it up got me to something about it being set for some release this next year?

      • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
        13·
        8 hours ago

        The point is, that’s a preference, not an innate ‘better,’ I generally use librewolf myself, but when the list of ‘problems’ with the browser is a set of optional things that you specifically have to turn on to experience, it’s kind of like saying pizza is bad because you don’t like pineapple, banana peppers, black olives, and chile flakes.