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It would seem that the Brave browser and Firefox share similar goals on privacy. It’s hard to navigate the differences in their perspectives on this, why would

It would seem that the Brave browser and Firefox share similar goals on privacy. It’s hard to navigate the differences in their perspectives on this, why would one choose one of these browsers over the other if concerned about online tracking?

jimktrains2 7y ago
Brave still contributes to a chrome monoculture, and it still shows ads, so it has a different vision of privacy.
- hellofunk 7y ago
  From the standpoint of privacy itself, I’m not sure how it’s different. The browser does not transmit any browsing behavior or history to any servers anywhere, which seems consistent with anyone’s vision of privacy. That they figured out a way to still offer advertising despite this restriction, that’s just an orthogonal feature that doesn’t affect the stance of privacy.
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doomlaser 7y ago
Firefox has more power user features and a robust plugin system. One of my must-have features for a browser is the ability to define search engine macros for the address bar, to quickly and directly search sites like Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube, Google Image Search, IMDB, Metacritic, RottenTomatoes, etc. It's a lot faster to type command-L t whatever - to do a search of Twitter than navigating in any other way. So far, Brave doesn't have this as a user-definable option, so Firefox is my main browser across platforms.
- anonymousab 7y ago
  Chrome seems to have this - that is, you define a domain+query string and a keyword that, when typed, indicated that it should be used on that domain query. Did Brave remove that feature?
  - doomlaser 7y ago
    Last time I tried using it, they did not have this feature enabled in their interface. There was a popular support request ticket to fix that, so this may have changed.
gatherhunterer 7y ago
Brave stops ads from tracking you but the browser itself records your browsing behavior and allows ads to use that anonymized data to target ads to you. Their marketing always mentions the former and never mentions the latter. The goal of Brave is to build a model for web advertising that pays the user but gives Brave the lion’s share; this essentially replaces the search engines and social networks as the nexus of web advertising with a browser.
- buboard 7y ago
  the data stays in your computer though, doesnt travel to their servers. that's very significant I 'm not sure Brave's model will work, but at least they are giving websites more options , which is more important imho than fighting for who will have the fastest rendering engine.

jimktrains2 7y ago

Brave still contributes to a chrome monoculture, and it still shows ads, so it has a different vision of privacy.

hellofunk 7y ago
From the standpoint of privacy itself, I’m not sure how it’s different. The browser does not transmit any browsing behavior or history to any servers anywhere, which seems consistent with anyone’s vision of privacy. That they figured out a way to still offer advertising despite this restriction, that’s just an orthogonal feature that doesn’t affect the stance of privacy.

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doomlaser 7y ago

Firefox has more power user features and a robust plugin system. One of my must-have features for a browser is the ability to define search engine macros for the address bar, to quickly and directly search sites like Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube, Google Image Search, IMDB, Metacritic, RottenTomatoes, etc. It's a lot faster to type command-L t whatever - to do a search of Twitter than navigating in any other way. So far, Brave doesn't have this as a user-definable option, so Firefox is my main browser across platforms.

anonymousab 7y ago
Chrome seems to have this - that is, you define a domain+query string and a keyword that, when typed, indicated that it should be used on that domain query. Did Brave remove that feature?
- doomlaser 7y ago
  Last time I tried using it, they did not have this feature enabled in their interface. There was a popular support request ticket to fix that, so this may have changed.

gatherhunterer 7y ago

Brave stops ads from tracking you but the browser itself records your browsing behavior and allows ads to use that anonymized data to target ads to you. Their marketing always mentions the former and never mentions the latter. The goal of Brave is to build a model for web advertising that pays the user but gives Brave the lion’s share; this essentially replaces the search engines and social networks as the nexus of web advertising with a browser.

buboard 7y ago
the data stays in your computer though, doesnt travel to their servers. that's very significant I 'm not sure Brave's model will work, but at least they are giving websites more options , which is more important imho than fighting for who will have the fastest rendering engine.