• kepix@lemmy.world
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    i used this piece of crap on windows, and theres always a small brave.exe running in the background even when you disable background running. i have no abiloty to prove its spyware, but doesnt strike confidence.

    also we have cromite, librewolf, ironfox, why would i install this crap?

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    9 days ago

    Firefox can be installed from Mozilla and managed by Obtainium. Much better option all the way around.

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    Cool I guess. But I still find Brave to be a sketchy organization with how they have done some of their schemes to make money over the years. So will continue to avoid anything they make.

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    10 days ago

    YSK: Brendan Eich left Mozilla over his own homophobic beliefs. He is also a coronavirus denier.

    1000038771

    Brave is homophobic Chrome with crypto on top

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      I could hate JavaScript for free, I’m very thankful Brendan gave me an extra reason

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          no the donation money was real. they added in buttons for supporting creators who had not opted in, swapped out affiliate links to go through them, and kept the money “in escrow” until the creator signed up. many people never did, and then they just kept that money they were holding on to.

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      10 days ago

      I never liked Brave tbh, something about it felt sketchy with all the crypto stuff

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      That’s not even the full extent of his homophobia. He also made donations to a politician who said that AIDS is a great thing and will purge the world of gay people.

      He also gave an interview about the whole being pressured to leave Mozilla thing, and said he was disappointed in how intolerant of his beliefs Mozilla staff were once they became public knowledge.

      Yes, you read that right, a man who wanted to strip gay people of their rights cried about fucking intolerance towards him. Clown.

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      Brave is a great browser, specially on older mobile. It is the default browser for the Nobara gaming linux distro, because it’s so good, and recently ranked top tier browser by Pewdiepie.

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        why would a desktop distro care that a browser works well on mobile? what was their actual reason?

        also, we already went over this: that tier list was not his. it was in his video because he was quoting another video. and if he did it fact rank browsers, what was the ranking based on?

        you can’t just say things.

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            I never used Brave, and I never will because I don’t want to be associated with or support bigotry. It might be the best browser in the world and I might be missing out, but homophobia isn’t cool, so I’m fine with that.

            Firefox works great for all my needs. 👍

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              what event caused you to associate using Brave with supporting bigotry and being homophobic?

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                caused you to associate using Brave with supporting bigotry

                Your comment, that I replied to, replied to this comment. Did you notice what it said? This is something I’ve heard and read on other occasions as well.

                being homophobic

                I wouldn’t become homophobic, but by using Brave I would feel like I’d be condoning or supporting homophobia and bigotry. And I have no interest in feeling like that.

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        Nonsense.

        Browsers on iOS are all just Safari, there is no meaningful difference. On older Android FOSS Browser or Fennec + Ublock + Noscript are both faster and more stable than Brave.

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          i’m glad you accept that Brave is now default on 2 linux distributions

          what you say about ios is true, but this is an android community, no?

          my experience of using Brave on an s4 mini for almost 10 years was really very good. super-stable and the built-in adblocker made the best use of the limited memory than any other browser

          really i was more interested in your description of Brave as an actively homophobic browser

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            The company was founded and is headed by a homophobic anti-vaxxer. Plus, the browser is not secure and has been involved in several controversies in the oast for things like selling user data and running a crypto scam.

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    9 days ago

    Is Brave browser the cryptocoin crap browser? I think I’ve used it for a short time about 2 years ago, before moving to Vivaldi and later Firefox.

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    Go ahead all you want. I’ll never install Brave because it’s chromium based and because of their leadership and their choices.