Goodbye Brave

#1

Post by amrrs » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:42 AM UTC

Re: Goodbye Brave

#2

Post by krisrm » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:52 AM UTC

Seems a little ironic to call out a piece of software whose literal job it is to connect to the internet for... Connecting to the internet.

Tongue in cheek aside, I don't know much about Brave - is there some specific reason that it needs an always-on server to call home to?

Re: Goodbye Brave

#3

Post by encryptluks2 » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

The thing I don't understand about Brave users is that they are essentially using Chromium with a bunch of extra bloat added. Wouldn't it make more sense to just use Chromium with the extensions that you want and need?

Re: Goodbye Brave

#4

Post by sombremesa » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:55 AM UTC

Weird that this person doesn’t even consider Firefox, the only browser that lets you have Adblock and other addons on mobile (but not on iOS, sadly).

Re: Goodbye Brave

#5

Post by schleck8 » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:55 AM UTC

I think this is due to Brave proxying some Google requests through their own servers, because otherwise the same people would complain that a Google server is being contacted.

> I am thinking of going back to [Chromium] with the usual extensions like Ghostery, AdBlock+

> [Brave's] amazing ad-blocking and tracker protection

If you just need an adblocker, sure. At this point everone should have heard of uBlock Origin.

Re: Goodbye Brave

#6

Post by cmeacham98 » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:56 AM UTC

Hi author, if you're here on HN please consider ditching sketchy extensions like Ghostery (sells your user data) and Adblock+ (participates in paid bypass of "acceptable ads" program) for the open-source and user-focused uBlock Origin (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock).

Also, if you haven't tried Firefox since the quantum days come back and give it another try.

Re: Goodbye Brave

#7

Post by schleck8 » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:56 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

The thing I don't understand about Brave users is that they are essentially using Chromium with a bunch of extra bloat added. Wouldn't it make more sense to just use Chromium with the extensions that you want and need?

It does include some hardening against fingerprinting. In contrast to Ungoogled Chromium it's properly compiled and can be updated easily.

Re: Goodbye Brave

#8

Post by rjzzleep » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

The thing I don't understand about Brave users is that they are essentially using Chromium with a bunch of extra bloat added. Wouldn't it make more sense to just use Chromium with the extensions that you want and need?

It has a pretty good adblocker integrated, which puts it ahead of chromium in terms of ad blocking. you can use the engine outside of browsers as well. It also has a decent working sync that doesn't require google services if you don't use their google services. It used to be worse, when it was still CEF based.

Re: Goodbye Brave

#9

Post by udbhavs » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

The thing I don't understand about Brave users is that they are essentially using Chromium with a bunch of extra bloat added. Wouldn't it make more sense to just use Chromium with the extensions that you want and need?

Chrome does not block ads on mobile or support extensions that can

Re: Goodbye Brave

#10

Post by deadalus » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

The thing I don't understand about Brave users is that they are essentially using Chromium with a bunch of extra bloat added. Wouldn't it make more sense to just use Chromium with the extensions that you want and need?

Ungoogled Chromium = no auto-updates, extensions hassle, few users so you can be fingerprinted