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Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User

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Post by SahAssar »

zionic wrote: post #4

Good. Brave is a solid browser. As someone who used Firefox continuously from when it used to be called “Mozilla” until early 2020 Brave is vastly superior. -better UI/UX -awesome ad block built in and by default, no need for extensions -noticeably faster -free of the political WTF-tier decisions of the organization backing Firefox. Edit: since when do I need to Reddit space here? Maybe I don’t post lists enough and…

> awesome ad block built in and by default, no need for extensions

I'd much rather keep my choice of adblocker and browser separate.

> free of the political WTF-tier decisions of the organization backing Firefox

Instead you get a bunch of crypto stuff, silently adding affiliate codes to typed urls and similar shady shit. Neither brave or mozilla is free from controversy but from what I've seen I'd rather have mozillas than braves.

Another reason to keep firefox around is to make sure we keep a somewhat independent browser engine vendor.

Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User

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Post by pcdoodle »

SahAssar wrote: post #11
zionic wrote: post #4

Good. Brave is a solid browser. As someone who used Firefox continuously from when it used to be called “Mozilla” until early 2020 Brave is vastly superior. -better UI/UX -awesome ad block built in and by default, no need for extensions -noticeably faster -free of the political WTF-tier decisions of the organization backing Firefox. Edit: since when do I need to Reddit space here? Maybe I don’t post lists enough and…

> awesome ad block built in and by default, no need for extensions I'd much rather keep my choice of adblocker and browser separate. > free of the political WTF-tier decisions of the organization backing Firefox Instead you get a bunch of crypto stuff, silently adding affiliate codes to typed urls and similar shady shit. Neither brave or mozilla is free from controversy but from what I've seen I'd rather have mozilla…

I want an alternative engine but Mozilla seems doomed.

Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

cf100clunk wrote: post #6
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> awesome ad block built in and by default I used to use Brave on Android, until the day they placed an ad on the home screen (new tab page? it's been a long time), and I looked in settings and couldn't disable it, so I uninstalled it, left an honest review, and never looked back.

On Android have you tried the similar Bromite browser?

I just went back to Firefox with uBo

Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User

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Post by BuckRogers »

I used Firefox for 19 years. Just left for Edge in August 2021. They just kept cutting features. I'm not someone that thinks alternate rendering engines are relevant... userbases are, that's where power comes from. I also wanted to move to my native browser, get the benefits of the billion dollars pumped into Chromium, and move to a major vendor for longterm support and advanced features.

That said, in my quest to find a new home, Brave came in a close 2nd. It's the only non-niche browser other than FF that's open source. Open source transparency with a focus on privacy? Everyone should be signing up by default. And the only one of those two built on Chromium, which fighting ~70% of the web on that has become pretty ridiculous. Brave is the only place if you want the best of every world.

I am firmly in the Edge camp, because other things matter to me as well that I won't go on at length here, but Brave is the only other browser I'll be keeping tabs on.

Congrats to Eich and the squad!

Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User

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Post by seniorivn »

supperburg wrote: post #2

How? Browsers need to die. Move all Js to apps and have browsers just display images/video/text in the way that we have found applies to 99% of modern use cases. The only reason Js existed was to afford more flexibility in the time that we didn’t know yet how the web would be used. Move all the code into apps where sandboxing/reputation can handle the security issues more effectively than Js.

there is a downside to it, platforms nowdays are so closed off that bloated web can be both cheaper and more competitive option

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Post by [deleted] »

supperburg wrote: post #2

How? Browsers need to die. Move all Js to apps and have browsers just display images/video/text in the way that we have found applies to 99% of modern use cases. The only reason Js existed was to afford more flexibility in the time that we didn’t know yet how the web would be used. Move all the code into apps where sandboxing/reputation can handle the security issues more effectively than Js.

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