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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The ceo is a bigoted asshole, Brave is chromium, it was initially funded by Peter Thiel and they're literally just trying to make their own adsense network.

The self-proclaimed privacy focused browser is tracking your browsing and want to serve you personalized ads, and I think they want to use that tracking data for AI training as well, meaning other people can potentially access it.

And lets not forget about their crypto currency that you can earn by turning on special ads. Which they seemingly unironically called it "Basic Attent Tokens"..

TL;DR: The company is basically a sham company trying to usher in a dystopia. Where you'll get paid for staring at ads, while having all your data stolen and sold back to you.

[–] sic_1@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see no reason to use any other browser than Firefox and maybe Librewolf.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am forced to use Chromium on my work laptop because MS Teams doesn't work (all the features) on Firefox.

Edit: I should elaborate this a bit. There are 2 reasons why I use Chromium on my machine.

  1. If I face a problem, company tech team only knows Chrome and they start crying when I open Firefox.
  2. On Linux, the official way to use Teams is through a web-app and Firefox doesn't support PWAs.

All other MS services function fine on Firefox.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which features I've never had an issue

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Simple one-to-one calling is disabled saying it's only available on Chrome. I'm pretty sure it's recent since I had calls a few months back on Firefox. I'm also sure that it's not some group policy since I'm on Ubuntu without any sort of ActiveDirectory so it's a pure browser issue. Also, they force the old UI in Firefox due to some reason. Typical BS from Microsoft.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does changing user agent mitigate some of those issues?

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I've tried it today and yeah, 1-to-1 calls magically/unsurprisingly start working. In fact, the whole UI gets a facelift and lots of new features.

If I had to guess, I'd say Microsoft keeps around a version of their UI, which hasn't been maintained in over a year, and serves that to anyone initiating communication with a user-agent string they don't like.

If that's true, that's a massive security vulnerability. Admittedly, also unsurprising for Microsoft. @xavier666@lemm.ee

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I've been meaning to try a user-agent override for this. I can't imagine, there's any actual technical reasons why one-to-one calking shouldn't work...

[–] Amilo159@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox on desktop is awesome. Firefox on mobile is painful.

[–] Darth_Vader__@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android firefox is ok now. Moreover now it supports add ons too and there are some good add ons there.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a very small number of add-ons, but one of them is uBlock Origin, and that's all I really want.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can just change the list of supported add-ons to whatever you like.

[–] Fissionami@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where can I change this list?

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the settings under "custom add-on list". You might need to enter dev mode, which you do by tapping the Firefox logo in the about menu 5 times (you get a toast with your progress).

After that you enter the userID ND the collection name in the popup and confirm.

Details:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extended-add-support

And a reddit comment with a list you can use:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/j1ta1s/comment/g720d72/

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if you tie your browser with an account at Mozilla. No way to do it without an account.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Only if you need your list. Otherwise you can just switch the list I'd to one including your extensions