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Goodbye Brave

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Re: Goodbye Brave

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Post by junon »

deadalus wrote: post #10
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

The extension hassle is fixed now. I'm less concerned about fingerprinting, most people can be fingerprinted these days. Too many APIs available in browsers. I'm more concerned with the constant phoning home that Chrome does.

Re: Goodbye Brave

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Post by rmbyrro »

krisrm wrote: post #2

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?

The issue isn't that it requires internet connection, obviously, but that it requires connection to a specific IP (Brave server) before you can use some features.

Re: Goodbye Brave

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Post by MrDresden »

I've never used Brave (simply because I really like Firefox as my daily driver) so I can't speak to the qualities.

But it seems ad blocking is always mentioned as a feature.

Might I recommend trying piHole at the intake into your homes.

Instead of relying on the application doing filtering, simply do it for the whole network (yes, caveats apply).

Re: Goodbye Brave

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Post by tecoholic »

newscracker wrote: post #70

Emphasis mine in the below quote: > "Arunmozhi is a freelance programmer and an open-source enthusiast." I'm surprised, shocked and dumfounded that Firefox is not even mentioned while Vivaldi and Chromium are being considered. For someone who put up with Brave for years and its other issues, it really seems strange that Firefox is not in consideration.

Firefox was once the primary and then a standin secondary when cpu/memory issues just made it too slow on my machine. With Brave becoming primary and Chrome becoming secondary, I have kind of forgotten about Firefox. After seeing the number of mentions here, I will sure give it a go.

Re: Goodbye Brave

#106

Post by unityByFreedom »

weq wrote: post #50
sombremesa wrote: post #4

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).

I switched to firefox after NEVER using it before when google started forcefully logging me in. Honestly, i havnt missed it all. Firefox on mobile is awesome - plugins work! Plus, no longer does google know where i am anymore. Its ability to track and suggest ads to me is pathetic.

> plugins work!

Only certain ones from their recommended program. Add-on support on mobile is still very limited from what it could be.

Re: Goodbye Brave

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Post by thunderbong »

sombremesa wrote: post #4

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).

Opera and Vivaldi both have ad-blocking and tracking prevention by default

Re: Goodbye Brave

#108

Post by b8 »

tecoholic wrote: post #98
cmeacham98 wrote: post #6

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.

Hi, author here. Thanks for the suggestions. 1. I haven't followed Ghostery, AdBlock+ devs since I started using Brave. Sad to learn of their status. I will look at uBlock Origin. 2. Firefox was a memory and CPU hog and I always usef it as a test browser or a secondary browser, until Brave. Then I started using Chrome as secondary and dropped Firefox. I will give Firefox another try. Thanks again.

You could try out GNU IceCat, it's the FLOSS version of Firefox. Normal FireFox seems to have memory leaks or something that would use a lot of cpu/ram.

Re: Goodbye Brave

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Post by istjohn »

rmbyrro wrote: post #88
growt wrote: post #61

For me brave mobile was the only usable browser on android because it has a bottom tab bar. I don’t know why chrome itself ditched it, does nobody at Google have a >6 inch phone? Then I discovered edge on android and it is really good (if you can live with the fact that it is from Microsoft). Now I switched to iOS and safari has bottom navigation by default.

Microsoft has changed a lot. They should probably have changed their name, at least for dev-related stuff. I think maybe you have a 1990's era Microsoft view?

Windows is full of ads. They are pushing Edge on users who select other browsers as default. Have they really changed?

Re: Goodbye Brave

#110

Post by echelon »

rmbyrro wrote: post #81
echelon wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My one gripe about Firefox mobile is that "pull down to refresh" and other common gestures don't work. Unless I'm missing something, there aren't settings available to enable this. Is this some kind of patented behavior that Mozilla is afraid to implement?

That we have to worry whether "pull down" is patented shows how far the patent system is from fulfilling its promise.

I was curious, so I just looked it up.

"pull down to refresh" is patented by Twitter:

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350826/twitter-pull-to-r...

And Firefox implements the feature in Nightly (this is an old thread, so perhaps it has already landed in mainline) :

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/nzfcak/why_do_we_n...

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