4 ms·
I am using firefox and I dismiss Brave because Chrome already is a monopoly. Firefox only has a tiny minority in total traffic and it's mostly from more technic
by DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
I am using firefox and I dismiss Brave because Chrome already is a monopoly. Firefox only has a tiny minority in total traffic and it's mostly from more technical users (a "technical user" would be anyone able to download an install a different browser). It is impossible to fight the current monopoly which spans across devices. The only chance we have right now. There is no way Brave or any other browser can gain enough market share to counter this except FF and even for FF the odds are slim.
The second reason I dismiss Brave is that it doesn't really provide anything innovative. It's not just about ad-tracking. We need also decentralization and new ideas on how we consume and organize information. Brave is just another for-profit organization which also makes a poor root of trust. (while Mozilla isn't any better here and also depends on questionable sources for funding the point is Brave doesn't disrupt here).
I'm not saying Brave is bad because any contender that can reduce the share of requests from Chrome vs the "Rest" is welcome. Maybe one day we have a world where 50% or less is Chrome and the rest is a mix of many different implementations. For this to happen the whole web would have to be re-envisoned because right now companies can't even bother to support the testing of more than one browser. So practically with how things are right now we will probably not have more than 2-3 contenders at any one time. And for this reason my personal vote is for FF.
- samantohermes 7y ago> I am using firefox and I dismiss Brave because Chrome already is a monopoly. Firefox only has a tiny minority in total traffic The only solution is to create a new web standards organization, since Google controls W3C. For example, WebAssembly has a lot of privacy issues.
- prawnsalad 7y agoThe standards are created by many organisations, not just Google. And then more than one major browser must implement and provide feedback on a proposed standard. We just hear more about Google’s input since they are by far the biggest and have a much larger engineering team than most. What privacy issues does webassembly have?
- Operyl 7y agoI’ve not heard of any, and spent the last 15-20 minutes looking for any and still haven’t.
- jjeaff 7y agoI don't directly know of any, but I think there is concern of the possibility of privacy issued due to the compiled, non-available source code that web assembly presumably provided.
- colordrops 7y agoPrivacy issues in webassembly should not be any harder to detect than minified JS. It doesn't really change the calculus.