I would gladly switch but Firefox Containers are irreplaceable.
How so? You can instead run multiple isolated instances of Firefox, at least on unixes.
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Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User
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Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User
#52Earlier 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.
Same, tried it, hated their crypto push and ads, uninstalled and never looked back. I'll never use Brave because of their stupid default decisions like putting a "tip" button under each Tweet or random news articles. Such a shame too because otherwise it's a decent browser. That said, Firefox Quantum is vastly superior in my opinion without all the crypto bullshit.
I think crypto enabled by default is too bold, there isn't anything particularly bullshitty about their crypto stuff imo but people legitimately feel icky about it.
Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t like giving questionable 3rd parties full access to my browsing data. I’d rather the browser get that right from the get go. It’s just like AV, I want Microsoft/Apple to secure their shit and not “Norton”
> I don’t like giving questionable 3rd parties full access to my browsing data. Oh I get it now. You don't understand how ad-block extensions work. You don't give anything to anybody there. PS. Brave is your Norton.
Ad block extensions require access to the DOM, right? How is that not access to browsing data?
Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User
#54And yet, one of the main features to benefit publishers is dead on arrival - for example I get paid by Google AdSense about 300 times more than Brave's Basic Attention Token on a monthly basis. They do a great job at blocking ads. They do a good job at pushing their own crypto ads but their Brave Rewards idea of rewarding publishers based on a monthly contribution from the community never quite worked because, really…
> really people want to block ads and are not interested in paying for the content via a wallet that requires you to exchange hard cash for tokens that you can't withdraw and can't control where it goes.
I earn BAT and give it away. No KYC required. There are some greedy users. But those would block AdSense regardless of Brave and you would get nothing anyway.
Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User
#55Brave blocks advertisements very aggressively and lets us tone down it to uBO level. Brave is also notorious for not listening to user feature requests. Vivaldi is more receptive. I hope there is a [maximum Rust and minimum JS] browser. Our world of problems would get solved.
Brave is a small company. It certainly doesn't have the resources like Chrome does. Give it time.
Re: Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active User
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Closed source is a deal-breaker for some of us.
Fair comment. However Vivaldi provides this https://vivaldi.com/source/ And I guess if you just download Brave you dont know from which source code was built.
> And I guess if you just download Brave you dont know from which source code was built.
You have pretty good guarantees.