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Firefox user here. I've looked into Brave, but decided I didn't really want it. This article is incredibly slanted. It takes every single possible fact it can

Firefox user here. I've looked into Brave, but decided I didn't really want it. This article is incredibly slanted. It takes every single possible fact it can and spins it into "Brave Bad." Something like this: > Brave is just another Chromium skin. So at the end, when using Brave or any other Chromium based browser, you’re giving marketshare to Google and supporting their evil web empire. Is simply not true. Every browser that isn't Chrome, every search page that isn't google.com, sends a message to not just Google but other competitors in the space that users want change. In addition, in an ideal world Chromium would be able to build enough momentum through community support (or support from MS or others) to provide a healthy fork, free from Google's clutches. I agree that Firefox is better - it is my personal web browser of choice - but that doesn't mean that Brave is bad software, or that the people behind it are evil, and anything that tamps down Google's monopoly is good in my mind.

AzzieElbab 5y ago
the biggest deal is hardcoded whitelist imho. rest of the article is just raw emotions
- celsoazevedo 5y ago
  You can't fully block certain services without breaking pages. Block Facebook and you break hotlinked images and comments on some sites. Block Twitter and embeded tweets break. Some people use these services to login too. And so on. I assume most users here understand this and would be able to fix the page, but the average user doesn't know how to do that. But then more advanced users should use uBlock Origin too, which lets you block Facebook, Twitter, Disqus, etc, too, so I don't think it's a major issue for us.
  - AzzieElbab 5y ago
    I understand this as well, but I would very much prefer if I could flip block/unblock on those cookies at will
1_player 5y ago
Brave the company has made some egregious missteps, but the problem with Brave is that there is so much FUD around it it's incredible. People keep repeating the same bullcrap which has been debunked hundreds of times, and Brave gets reviled much more than it deserves. Every time a Brave article is posted on HN the first 5 top comments are the same trite, wrong arguments, whose first reply is usually someone clarifying and correcting OP. There's a long road ahead to cleaning up the Brave name, if it's at all possible in the first place.

AzzieElbab 5y ago

the biggest deal is hardcoded whitelist imho. rest of the article is just raw emotions

celsoazevedo 5y ago
You can't fully block certain services without breaking pages. Block Facebook and you break hotlinked images and comments on some sites. Block Twitter and embeded tweets break. Some people use these services to login too. And so on. I assume most users here understand this and would be able to fix the page, but the average user doesn't know how to do that. But then more advanced users should use uBlock Origin too, which lets you block Facebook, Twitter, Disqus, etc, too, so I don't think it's a major issue for us.
- AzzieElbab 5y ago
  I understand this as well, but I would very much prefer if I could flip block/unblock on those cookies at will

1_player 5y ago

Brave the company has made some egregious missteps, but the problem with Brave is that there is so much FUD around it it's incredible. People keep repeating the same bullcrap which has been debunked hundreds of times, and Brave gets reviled much more than it deserves. Every time a Brave article is posted on HN the first 5 top comments are the same trite, wrong arguments, whose first reply is usually someone clarifying and correcting OP. There's a long road ahead to cleaning up the Brave name, if it's at all possible in the first place.