No thanks Brendan Eich the CEO of Brave is a piece of shit.
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FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Yet another reason to use Brave, which has better native ad block than any of the other browsers.
Xero@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Only vivaldi caught this issue. Brave had this api enabled, most likely on accident.
But the problem is, that chromium is just such big and complex software, when combined with development being driven by Google, it’s just impossible for any significant changes or auditing to be done by third parties. Google is capable of exteriting control over Brave, simply by hiding changes like above, or by making massive changes like manifest v3, which are expensive for third parties to maintain.
Brave can maintain 1 big change to chromium, but for how long? What about 2, 3, etc.
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Meh, Brave is still Chroium. Even if they continue to support manifest v2, even today the are selling „good“ ads to the users. That and the Crypto bullshit they tried a while ago makes them untrustworthy in my eyes.
Firefox is the only real alternative.
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
And yet, it does a better job blocking YouTube ads than Firefox, without any add-ons.
Those features are opt-in.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
You mean by building the add-on directly into the browser? No thanks. I like my browser dev to work on my browser and my ad-block dev to work on my ad-block. They are both good at what they do on their own, I don’t need them to mix.
They are now. They were opt-out to begin with. This is one of those “fool me twice” situations. That, and the founder of Brave is also an outspoken homophobe. He financially backed Prop 8 in California to overturn same-sex marriage, and left Firefox because it was too woke. I seriously would rather Chrome at that point. They’re just regular levels of corporate evil, not “every person who uses my browser is proving my identity politics” level of evil.
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
That’s what I don’t get with the Anti-Brave crowd.
Brave learns their users don’t like a feature and then they do better. This would, to me, be indicative of the way things should proceed.
Meanwhile Firefox is moving backwards.
By all means, use a browser that doesn’t work as well, but maybe don’t run a circle jerk of trolls whenever someone offers a better-working alternative.