Yeah exactly, Brave is for people who are scared of installing extensions but clicking a big install button on a site that runs an executable is perfectly fine
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imjustmsk@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I don’t think an average person would listen to me if I instructed them to get rid of chrome and get Firefox and install couple extensions for privacy.
So, I just ask them to download brave and tell them it’s just chrome but better, It blocks all the annoying stuff on the internet and atleast they will stop using the hell of a pacifier that chrome is and move on.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
Well I’d argue that with the changes to Manifest, Brave is actually one of your stronger options if chrome is a must have.
If you don’t need chrome, Firefox (or a fork) with ublock is enough for most.
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
What extensions would you recommend for Firefox?
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 22 minutes ago
Ublock Origin is the only mandatory extension i can think of.
Some other extensions I personally use are:
Gesturefy is useful if you want to control things with mouse gestures (holding right-click and then drawing a shape to activate commands)
NoScript for a little added security, with the cost of having to manually enable javascript on websites that literally can’t function without it.
Any extension that runs userscripts.
Dark Reader for websites that don’t offer a dark mode.
imjustmsk@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Just Ublock origin is more than enough, it’s pretty customisable too, Brave is for people who just wanna install and do nothing
Except when I install Brave I have to debloat it, holy bloat so is Firefox bloated - I usually get forks (Librewolf, Zen etc)
ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
I just wish librewolf would release a mobile version 🤞🤞
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Ublock origin
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Yes, it’s just Chrome but better - it also funds bigots!
Plonk.