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I certainly do. That said, I struggle to find another browser that's any better and most are worse. So I accept Firefox as the lesser evil.
Brave browser is such an obvious win for me… chrome + privacy. None of the bugs and missing features that come with Safari or Firefox.
Damn. If there was ever any doubt about why you should get off chrome, this seems to put an end to that.
right but at least google will tell you. brave a lot more shady and just wont say anything or let you opt out. many examples in the past. imagine if they were anywhere near a quarter of googles size it wouldnt be pretty imo.
All settings in Brave with an impact on user privacy are opt-in. They even inform you of their product metrics, when you first start it, despite having a paper on how they anonymize that data. Versus Firefox, which never bothered. Firefox, which also added metrics for ads, similar with Privacy Sandbox, without informing users.
I've never seen a browser with such a strong focus on privacy, the only contender it has being LibreWolf.
The hate against Brave on this forum is completely unjustified and based on falsehoods, as if the issue isn't about Brave itself.
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Brave is a Chromium derivative, not Chrome. Can't imagine why any of this would imply they would need to stop deriving Chromium: they can develop and deploy whatever cookie policies and defaults they want.
At this point they likely have no choice but to keep building on a chromium base. However the cost of maintaining their changes and additions will likely increase.
I've been using Brave as primary for years. At this point I'd pay for a license if it were necessary. Frankly that would be an improvement: if it's free, you're the product. Brave just monetizes you differently.
I no longer argue with the legion of Brave haters. I've decided they're a benefit: the more people that don't use Brave the less likely Google et al. will be compelled to destroy it.
I don't care because I use Firefox.
Firefox will either support this or your favorite websites won't work so you'll switch to Chrome so they do work.
If my favorite websites stop working with Firefox, they won't be my favorite websites anymore. I'll just stop using them instead.
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Safari. That's the only browser I really use.
That's not an option unless you're an Apple user, though.
On Macs and iOS, and iPadOS, it's clunkier than Safari, but less clunky than Firefox.
Perhaps the Windows experience is similar.
I don't care because I use Firefox.
Firefox will either support this or your favorite websites won't work so you'll switch to Chrome so they do work.
Damn. If there was ever any doubt about why you should get off chrome, this seems to put an end to that.
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Firefox will either support this or your favorite websites won't work so you'll switch to Chrome so they do work.
> or your favorite websites won't work If my favorite websites stop working with Firefox, they won't be my favorite websites anymore. I'll just stop using them instead.
Easily said, until it's your bank, or a government entity, or the electric company, or any of the thousands of other entities that have started blocking Firefox.
Firefox should really camouflage its user agent, or make it trivial to do so.
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Google wanted to (that's why they created stuff like FLoC) but other advertisers didn't like that and went to the market authority. They demanded the ability to track users, arguing that the system would give Google an unfair advantage. After years of back and forth, Google abandoned their efforts. You can still disable third party cookies, in fact I don't think there's been a version of Chrome that doesn't let you b…
> and went to the market authority its interesting that authority is in UK, but they pushed Google to abandon effort globally.