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Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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> There are a few security features in Brave worth highlighting, such as its automatic HTTPS connection upgrades (which Firefox also offers by extension) This information is a bit outdated, Firefox has offered HTTPS mode built-in for a few versions now.

its obviously old because it uses firefox 81 or 82 as per the article. Probably 1 year old firefox.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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post #9

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Still, big products rarely want to mention their smaller competitors, to not draw attention to them. That Mozilla post is a very good favor for Brave. Kudos to Mozilla!

Brave isn't a competitor with Firefox. Firefox is a browser, Brave is a crypto wallet/ethical ad aggregator/adblock/DNS/video-calling system/compensation network/social/IPFS viewer. You're welcome to choose for yourself, but I typically grab Firefox when I just want to browse the web.

> Firefox is a browser, Brave is a ...

Yes. But to most people, they're both browsers. So it really doesn't matter.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Yeah. So irritating. Adblock Plus is owned by Eyeo GmbH which supposedly earns millions through it's 'acceptable ads' program. [1] https://nitter.mailstation.de/gorhill/search?f=tweets&q=%22e... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus [3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Edit: Just use 'Ublock Origin' instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

> Adblock Plus is owned by Eyeo GmbH which supposedly earns millions through it's 'acceptable ads' program. That is not wild speculation but rather the official narrative from Adblock Plus. Their main revenue stream is the acceptable ads program [1]. In order to see if they make "millions", I am also linking their financial statements from the Company Register in Germany [2]. Please note that this document is in Germ…

So, are they making millions?

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

#35

Brave do less home call. And by home call for Firefox, I don't even mean Mozilla, but Google. And giving they don't care about they use opiniouns they should just shutdown the telemetry. (It's funny to see a download link for Firefox at the end of this article, look like they are desperate.)

> look like they are desperate

They should be. I'd be happy to see more desperation from them if it means more users, more investment (not from Google), and more chances at staying afloat.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

#36
Brave always looked shady to me. Even inoring that I don't like Brendan for personal reasons. There is something nauseating about using "privacy" and other nice-sounding words to pump your own crypto-currency. I may be misunderstanding things here, I'm open to positive arguments about this.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

#37
post #9

"Turns out, Mozilla Firefox is better" -- Mozilla

Still, big products rarely want to mention their smaller competitors, to not draw attention to them. That Mozilla post is a very good favor for Brave. Kudos to Mozilla!

Is Brave really that much smaller than Firefox, these days? Firefox has lost a LOT of market share over the last 15 years of Mozilla basically running an "eat your vegetables" campaign for their primary product.

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

#38
post #21

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You are a part of society. If something is bad for society, it will, in the long run, be bad for you.

True but will your choice change the course of society? Probably not.

Your choice definitely won’t change the course if you choose to contribute to the current course.

“Hey, this boat is sinking. Will this one bucket of water I throw out stop it from sinking? No? Guess I’ll just do nothing then. Maybe I’ll pour some more water in. That’s the way things are going you know.“

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

#39
post #12
post #5

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Any suggestions/extension for better bookmarks management?

I've given up on the built-in bookmarks in all browsers and even the New Tab page. I wrote up a single file HTML page and checked it into my dotfiles repos. Icons are short data urls of SVG with a hover drop down (like Reddit and various subreddits). I like that it's "self hosted" and not some 3rd party site. I have hundreds of bookmarks, all neatly categorized, compared to the New Tab page's paltry 16 or whatever. I…

Are you saying you have your new-tab page set to a `file://` URL that points to an HTML file? If so, that's a pretty excellent idea. :D

Re: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

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Brave do less home call. And by home call for Firefox, I don't even mean Mozilla, but Google. And giving they don't care about they use opiniouns they should just shutdown the telemetry. (It's funny to see a download link for Firefox at the end of this article, look like they are desperate.)

I mean it's marketing material, of course there's a download link at the bottom
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