Or, y’know, an open source browser that isn’t a slop machine run by a creep. Seriously, why the heck do people keep recommending brave?
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entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 15 hours ago
Download the brave bowser.
No more ads
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
It’s funny seeing the massive divide between Lemmy and Reddit on Brave. On Reddit, Brave is continuously praised as the go-to browser because they ran a massive astroturfed campaign and got a bunch of redditors to switch. But on Lemmy (where they never ran that astroturfing) Brave is pretty widely hated.
You can always tell when someone is a recent Reddit refugee, because they’ll mention Brave and immediately get shouted down. And sure enough, the person’s account is only like a day old.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
How recent is this history. Because I remember many years back now something like an AMA or some other post by the CEO of Brave, promoting it ahead of it being released I think and getting a pretty frosty reception on Reddit once people asked a bit more about how it was supposed to work. As time went on the reception seemed only to get worse as rumours spread of crypto scams and dodginess and even just on a basic level, questions of “why would we use this when we could just use Firefox with an ad blocker?”
I get the impression though that Reddit has been changing.
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Oh that’s why lol!
voidsignal@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Only the ones from brave and their crypto bs
entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 15 hours ago
You can just not use their crypto?
voidsignal@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You can also not just look at the ad.
entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 12 hours ago
You could just let people make their own decisions without being a giant cunt about it?
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
You can just use a firefox derivative or even a different chromium derivative?