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Gonna go ahead and be downvote sponge here: Brave. Its privacy features and integrated Adblock have no peer that I’ve found yet, and easy bookmark/history syncing across multiple devices.
Yeah the CEO is a POS. Find me a tech CEO that’s not, besides Meredith Whitaker.
Worried about privacy but uses a crypto scamming software. Weird flex but ok.
You can turn the crypto part off you know. They even tell you how to do it.
The fact that it’s even part of the software is a non starter for me. I don’t trust that company at all.
Fair enough. I agree for what it’s worth—just have yet to find a browser that meets my needs for both usability and privacy. Always happy to explore options and I do sometimes. Just always end up back with Brave because everything else I try ends up annoying me in some way or the other.
Honestly, I don't get the hate for Brendan Eich, he created JavaScript (awkward design, but it was hugely successful) and co-founded Mozilla, so I think he was a fantastic influence for the open web until someone decided to make a big deal about his private donations. To be clear, I disagree with his political positions, but I don't think they should have any bearing on his suitability as a leader at Mozilla, and I think Mozilla would be in a much better place had he stayed on as CEO. I like the initiative of Brave Search, and I think, in general, Brave is doing a lot of interesting things.
That said, I use Firefox because I believe strongly in open web standards, and Mozilla is the biggest competitor to Chromium's rendering and JavaScript engine. I use Brave as a backup browser (i.e. testing for Chromium browsers, random pages that don't work on FF, etc), but I won't daily drive it while a credible alternative to Chromium's rendering engine exists. I'm also disappointed at some of the choices they've made (e.g. the BAT thing should've been a way to pay to remove ads, not a way for users to get some kind of profit; I'd love to be able to pay a few cents here and there for ad-free content I like).