Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser • Hacker News Board

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by sergiotapia » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

What are you switching to? The alternatives is a much worse browser Firefox, a botnet Google Chrome, or some weird chinese spy Opera.

What are you going to use?

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by nathias » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

They just gained me as an user. Haven't used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT stuff and crypto has forced me on it.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by freeAgent » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:00 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #2

I would be happier if Brave made an "Enterprise" version of their browser without the Tor or crypto stuff. My company recently banned the use of Brave because it is a Tor client. I had been using Brave as a Chrome-adjacent browser for testing and web dev but I've had to go back to the Google-monitored version of Chrome.

Why not use Edge?

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by blacksmith_tb » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #2

I would be happier if Brave made an "Enterprise" version of their browser without the Tor or crypto stuff. My company recently banned the use of Brave because it is a Tor client. I had been using Brave as a Chrome-adjacent browser for testing and web dev but I've had to go back to the Google-monitored version of Chrome.

Vivaldi[1] is another Chromium family browser that people seem to like (I use Brave w/o their crypto features for Google-y things like Gmail and Maps that never seem to work quite right in Firefox for me).

1: https://vivaldi.com/features/

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by Nicksil » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #21

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

What are you switching to? The alternatives is a much worse browser Firefox, a botnet Google Chrome, or some weird chinese spy Opera. What are you going to use?

>a much worse browser Firefox

How do you figure?

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by rafaelturk » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

Isn't the idea of web3 to also be browser agnostic?

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by illegalsmile » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #12

nightwatchinc wrote: post #9

Why would someone use this over Metamask?

Metamask is begging to be disrupted. It's not like the UX is even close to being as good as it could be.

Ten years ago the software wallets were crude, generally for individual projects/networks and not exactly easy to use. MetaMask is so cool comparatively; you can switch between networks, testnets and mains, add your own networks, interact with sites built to use it and it's a browser app. That said I think you're right and this is pretty common in the space as a whole still but it is becoming better. Security is still a huge issue IMO and I would never use metamask as anything more than a means to an end.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by casi18 » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

nightwatchinc wrote: post #9

Why would someone use this over Metamask?

iirc: originally brave embedded metamask but with their own branding, metamask then changed their license so that other companies couldn't do that without paying a license fee, so the brave version stayed on the older version without the license fee and slowly became outdated and less useful. I guess this is them updating their fork from that point and adding some features back.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by evergrande » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

Why would an optional feature force you off? That sounds like a purity test an anti-technology cult would come up with.

Re: Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser

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Post by chipotle_coyote » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #21

nklmilojevic wrote: post #14

They just lost me as an user. Used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT scam stuff and crypto has forced me off of it. sigh

What are you switching to? The alternatives is a much worse browser Firefox, a botnet Google Chrome, or some weird chinese spy Opera. What are you going to use?

Depending on your OS, Vivaldi, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium based browsers, as well as Safari and a few other weirdos using WebKit, all still exist. Beyond that, calling Firefox "much worse" is obviously subjective; there haven't been any credible allegations I'm aware of that Opera is "weird Chinese spy" (sic), and even though they're owned by a Chinese company now they're still headquartered in Norway and have to comply with Norwegian privacy laws; and calling Google Chrome a "botnet" is, uh, frankly weird. It's not very privacy-sensitive and that may be reason enough to avoid it, but it is not a "botnet" by any definition of the term I'm aware of.