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The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by _puk »

meerita wrote: post #49
Sevaris wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm quite happy with FF on desktops, but the mobile version is just ... overall a miserable experience compared to Brave. After using it for a while, going back to FF constantly makes me feel like useful QoL features are missing and I end up going back to Brave.

Using FF on mobile, I have no complains.

I recently tried moving from mobile Brave to Firefox as I've used desktop FF for years, and wanted cross platform bookmarks.

The experience was incredibly sub par on Android. I tried browsing a video heavy subreddit, and FF just hung (well, all videos stopped playing, which is what I was there for).

I want to use it, but if it can't manage my base use case, I can't warrant it.

I will try again one day, I'm sure.

Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by jccalhoun »

thezdroids wrote: post #58

I support businesses that don't support bigotry toward me- their lead dev @jonathansampson is a vocal supporter of Trump. Nah I’m good.

Ugh. Between him and Eich's past with opposing the legalization of gay marriage, I think I'll stay clear of brave.

Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by dsissitka »

bad_user wrote: post #77
dsissitka wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try it regularly but it just doesn't work for me. Here are just a few of the reasons why: 1. Chromium based browsers give me control over extensions that require access to everything. https://imgur.com/a/ENZkQyc 2. Firefox doesn't support media keys. Edit: Turns out it does if you enable them in about:config. See bad_user's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442732 3. There are still some areas in whic…

Firefox does support media keys, but it's experimental and you have to enable them in about:config: - media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled - dom.media.mediasession.enabled #1 seems nice. Note however that Firefox was safer even before they introduced their permissions system simply by having a review system that works. The review system of Chrome Web Store is broken, there's a lot of malware on it, extensions bought and t…

> Firefox does support media keys, but it's experimental and you have to enable them in about:config:

Nice! Thank you. :)

Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by slipheen »

meerita wrote: post #15

Being a happy Firefox user and watching all the browser drama from the backyard. I still don't understand why people uses Chrome or Chrome variants claiming privacy things.

Are use Firefox for my primary browser, but there are certain sites (made by google primarily) which work much better in chromium based browsers.

Whether Google is intentionally degrading their performance in Firefox or simply doesn't care is an interesting technical detail, but from a practical standpoint I need to use these sites for my job, so I also need to keep a chromium-based browser around.

Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by toyg »

drannex wrote: post #23
meerita wrote: post #15

Being a happy Firefox user and watching all the browser drama from the backyard. I still don't understand why people uses Chrome or Chrome variants claiming privacy things.

Agreed, I haven't seen or heard anything off kilter with Firefox in a very very long time and they have always been on the forefront of privacy and development features.

Mozilla make their fair share of fuckups and bad moves, but they're still on a different level from these niche Chromium derivatives that invariably come with ugly business models attached.

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Post by jccalhoun »

I seem to collect browsers like some people collect pokemon. Right now I am typing this in firefox and have twitch open in chrome in my second monitor. I use Edge for work accounts, Waterfox for times when I want to use a couple old addons that were never ported over, and opera and vivaldi around just to see how they measure up.

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Post by mixedCase »

meerita wrote: post #15

Being a happy Firefox user and watching all the browser drama from the backyard. I still don't understand why people uses Chrome or Chrome variants claiming privacy things.

Firefox's performance on Linux is markedly worse than Chrome's.

Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by toyg »

drannex wrote: post #20
sergiotapia wrote: post #9

I'm going to have to switch browser AGAIN? Dammit. Is Opera safe or what shady shit have they done? I haven't used Opera since Opera back in 2006. God I miss the Presto engine and dragonfly. Can I go back to them or they doing shady stuff?

They were sold to a chinese consortium, so take that as you will. Vivaldi is an excellent alternative, and the latest versions of Firefox are far superior imo. Vivaldi is essentially Old Opera 2.0 in terms of features, focused on power users, created by the same guy as the original Opera, and runs on Chromium. Still putting my vote in Firefox though.

I keep Vivaldi as my "test in Chrome" browser, but their business model is not the most transparent from a privacy perspective (at one point it looked like they were aggregating browsing stats to resell).

Firefox is still my main driver. They make the occasional bad choice but their overall business model is basically the best we can hope for in a browser, these days.

Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by flarex »

this_user wrote: post #13

I'm surprised people are surprised by this. Brave have said from the beginning that this is how their business model works. What I'm even more surprised about is that Brave has gotten any traction at all, as there is really no reason to use it instead of a normal browser with regular ad blockers.

You can get paid for using the browser by being shown replacement non-targeted ads. Although it's a trivial amount.

Re: The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes

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Post by 8192kjshad09- »

mixedCase wrote: post #87
meerita wrote: post #15

Being a happy Firefox user and watching all the browser drama from the backyard. I still don't understand why people uses Chrome or Chrome variants claiming privacy things.

Firefox's performance on Linux is markedly worse than Chrome's.

How ironic
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