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There is some valid criticism made of Brave in this thread, which seems to ignore that those additional features are opt-in. In my experience, Brave is the bes

There is some valid criticism made of Brave in this thread, which seems to ignore that those additional features are opt-in. In my experience, Brave is the best browser for empowering the less technically literate to protect their privacy. Until Mozilla ships Firefox with more aggressive, integrated, on-by-default privacy protection, Brave is the best browser to advocate for non-techies.

gnusty_gnurc 7y ago
Yea the OS/free-software zealotry is annoying. I use Brave and it’s been great so far. Even the UI is nicer than Firefox imo.
- jshevek 7y ago
  There may be zealotry involved in the attacks on Brave, but I don't think it is essentially OS/free software zealotry. Brave is open source, after all. Edit: I am a passionate advocate for freedom, privacy, and free software and I like Brave.
  - gnusty_gnurc 7y ago
    It feels to me like even a nice comment about Brave is an outright threat to openness and virtue. IMO it’s the same bizarre Manichaean zeitgeist that pops up in so many other aspects of life and discussion.
    - jshevek 7y ago
      Yes, I think we agree about the fact of an ideological bias, just not the underlying motive for, or nature of, the ideological bias.
alwillis 7y ago
Built-in Tor FTW.
earenndil 7y ago
Ublock origin has less friction associated with installation and is arguably more private (no BAT).
Yizahi 7y ago
Current browser situation looks like a giant skyscraper of the rich anti-privacy monopolist surrounded by 2-3 decrepit hovels of pro-privacy or neutral competitors. As of today all of the hovels except for one are burned down to the ground and bulldozed over. Promoting Brave is essentially the same as painting logo "privacy" on the back entrance to the skyscraper while pouring gasoline on the last remaining competitor hovel. If Firefox will die, there will be zero privacy in the internet left, because these Chrome mods with fancy icons are powerless against real "owner" of the Chrome codebase and all future changes in it.

gnusty_gnurc 7y ago

Yea the OS/free-software zealotry is annoying. I use Brave and it’s been great so far. Even the UI is nicer than Firefox imo.

jshevek 7y ago
There may be zealotry involved in the attacks on Brave, but I don't think it is essentially OS/free software zealotry. Brave is open source, after all. Edit: I am a passionate advocate for freedom, privacy, and free software and I like Brave.
- gnusty_gnurc 7y ago
  It feels to me like even a nice comment about Brave is an outright threat to openness and virtue. IMO it’s the same bizarre Manichaean zeitgeist that pops up in so many other aspects of life and discussion.
  - jshevek 7y ago
    Yes, I think we agree about the fact of an ideological bias, just not the underlying motive for, or nature of, the ideological bias.

alwillis 7y ago

Built-in Tor FTW.

earenndil 7y ago

Ublock origin has less friction associated with installation and is arguably more private (no BAT).

Yizahi 7y ago

Current browser situation looks like a giant skyscraper of the rich anti-privacy monopolist surrounded by 2-3 decrepit hovels of pro-privacy or neutral competitors. As of today all of the hovels except for one are burned down to the ground and bulldozed over. Promoting Brave is essentially the same as painting logo "privacy" on the back entrance to the skyscraper while pouring gasoline on the last remaining competitor hovel. If Firefox will die, there will be zero privacy in the internet left, because these Chrome mods with fancy icons are powerless against real "owner" of the Chrome codebase and all future changes in it.