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I switched to Brave - no regrets

by OrlandoHakim 5y ago

mrjangles 5y ago
I'm almost certain Brave would have something like this too as advertising is their business model, right?
- btdmaster 5y ago
  It does: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
- xtat 5y ago
  Suggest everyone here read up on Brave - internally the care for privacy is much higher than Mozilla [I have worked for both] and things like P3A liked here are carefully designed to avoid leaking PII and implemented honestly somewhat begrudgingly.
wyclif 5y ago
I did, too. All I can tell you is that when I have Brave running on an M1 with four tabs open, it's consistently using 240MB of memory. When I fire up Firefox Developer Edition with the same tabs open, it starts at 660MB and quickly balloons up to 1.05GB of memory usage.
- nemosaltat 5y ago
  My experience also. I’ve slowly edged away from Firefox and have primarily been using Brave and Safari for the last 6mos or so. Brave just feels snappier, and it’s close enough to Chrome that most work required websites aren’t broken.
  - jamjamjamjamjam 5y ago
    Ive made the opposite switch, many sites were broken in brave (eg google docs, google sheets) and aren’t in firefox
    - wyclif 5y ago
      I currently have a number of Google Docs and Sheets open in Brave. Because of your comment, I started poking around. Try as I might, I couldn't break anything. That probably doesn't mean there's absolutely no way anything could be broken, but just anecdotal—I couldn't find anything.
  - the_other 5y ago
    They are still broken, you just can’t see it.
- gitrog 5y ago
  How are the devtools in Brave?
  - wyclif 5y ago
    They're comparable to Chromium's, if not identical: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
  - michalstanko 5y ago
    Same as Chrome
- bdlowery 5y ago
  Because Brave (and chrome, edge, opera) runs on Blink, and Firefox runs on Gecko
sellerie 5y ago
People complain about firefox doing shady stuff and then use Brave lmao. Just leaving these here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19125#issuecomment-955806829 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19125#issuecom... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16611#issuecomment-868203630 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16611#issuecom...
- zeepzeep 5y ago
  > Steps to Reproduce > 1. Open Brave This is way too funny for me.
- dangerface 5y ago
  The first bug is because of daylight savings the was also in chrome. People mistakenly thought it was to do with brave servers being down. The second one is people trying to install plugins from the chrome web store, apparently it has to do this through brave servers. I don't think it's entirely unreasonable that when installing a plugin from your browser that your browser has to connect to a server to do so. Trying to present bugs as some sort of malware is dishonest, the source code is open if it was really phoning home why not just link that code?
- benibela 5y ago
  >High CPU usage I have that problem all the time in Firefox But probably I just opened too many tabs
  - buo 5y ago
    I'd suggest the Auto Tab Discard extension. It's wonderful.
  - TheGoddessInari 5y ago
    I tend to open multiple thousands of tabs because Firefox lets me, and it hasn't been a cpu issue on desktop or Android.
    - 5y ago
iRobbery 5y ago
little snitch pops up more here for updates checks and others i assume for brave (idle, not browsing) than chrome does.
- xtat 5y ago
  Interestingly this is likely for privacy reasons in a roundabout way. Brave doesn't connect to Google and so had to implement much of the serverside functionality (updates, sync etc) itself.
kgonza 5y ago
Lol; this isn't something you should boast about.
__alexs 5y ago
You don't regret supporting a guy who wants to ban same sex marriage and pushes covid misinfo?
- docmars 5y ago
  All people are fallible — by this logic, you should stop buying anything at all. Someone associated with anything you purchase or use just might have a scary opinion you can't tolerate, and we can't have that, can we now? Oh the agony!
- unmole 5y ago
  Does he use the browser for that? If not, how is it relevant?
wumms 5y ago
From Wikipedia: > On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserts affiliate referral codes when users type a URL of Binance into the address bar, which earns Brave money. Further research revealed that Brave redirects the URLs of other cryptocurrency exchange websites, too. In response to the backlash from the users, Brave's CEO apologized and called it a "mistake" and said "we're correcting". [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Insertion_of_referral_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Insertion_...
bigbugbag 5y ago
a browser who does not develop their own code base but reuse google's, with a business model based on monetizing users attention to ads network while pretending to protect privacy and block ads. I wonder what could go wrong here ? maybe their history of misbehaving with money and injecting affiliate links in users browsing or the security issues and leaks could give us a pointer or two.

I switched to Brave - no regrets

mrjangles 5y ago

I'm almost certain Brave would have something like this too as advertising is their business model, right?

btdmaster 5y ago
It does: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
xtat 5y ago
Suggest everyone here read up on Brave - internally the care for privacy is much higher than Mozilla [I have worked for both] and things like P3A liked here are carefully designed to avoid leaking PII and implemented honestly somewhat begrudgingly.

wyclif 5y ago

I did, too. All I can tell you is that when I have Brave running on an M1 with four tabs open, it's consistently using 240MB of memory. When I fire up Firefox Developer Edition with the same tabs open, it starts at 660MB and quickly balloons up to 1.05GB of memory usage.

nemosaltat 5y ago
My experience also. I’ve slowly edged away from Firefox and have primarily been using Brave and Safari for the last 6mos or so. Brave just feels snappier, and it’s close enough to Chrome that most work required websites aren’t broken.
- jamjamjamjamjam 5y ago
  Ive made the opposite switch, many sites were broken in brave (eg google docs, google sheets) and aren’t in firefox
  - wyclif 5y ago
    I currently have a number of Google Docs and Sheets open in Brave. Because of your comment, I started poking around. Try as I might, I couldn't break anything. That probably doesn't mean there's absolutely no way anything could be broken, but just anecdotal—I couldn't find anything.
- the_other 5y ago
  They are still broken, you just can’t see it.
gitrog 5y ago
How are the devtools in Brave?
- wyclif 5y ago
  They're comparable to Chromium's, if not identical: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
- michalstanko 5y ago
  Same as Chrome
bdlowery 5y ago
Because Brave (and chrome, edge, opera) runs on Blink, and Firefox runs on Gecko

sellerie 5y ago

People complain about firefox doing shady stuff and then use Brave lmao. Just leaving these here: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19125#issuecomment-955806829 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19125#issuecom... https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16611#issuecomment-868203630 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/16611#issuecom...

zeepzeep 5y ago
> Steps to Reproduce > 1. Open Brave This is way too funny for me.
dangerface 5y ago
The first bug is because of daylight savings the was also in chrome. People mistakenly thought it was to do with brave servers being down. The second one is people trying to install plugins from the chrome web store, apparently it has to do this through brave servers. I don't think it's entirely unreasonable that when installing a plugin from your browser that your browser has to connect to a server to do so. Trying to present bugs as some sort of malware is dishonest, the source code is open if it was really phoning home why not just link that code?
benibela 5y ago
>High CPU usage I have that problem all the time in Firefox But probably I just opened too many tabs
- buo 5y ago
  I'd suggest the Auto Tab Discard extension. It's wonderful.
- TheGoddessInari 5y ago
  I tend to open multiple thousands of tabs because Firefox lets me, and it hasn't been a cpu issue on desktop or Android.
  - 5y ago

iRobbery 5y ago

little snitch pops up more here for updates checks and others i assume for brave (idle, not browsing) than chrome does.

xtat 5y ago
Interestingly this is likely for privacy reasons in a roundabout way. Brave doesn't connect to Google and so had to implement much of the serverside functionality (updates, sync etc) itself.

kgonza 5y ago

Lol; this isn't something you should boast about.

__alexs 5y ago

You don't regret supporting a guy who wants to ban same sex marriage and pushes covid misinfo?

docmars 5y ago
All people are fallible — by this logic, you should stop buying anything at all. Someone associated with anything you purchase or use just might have a scary opinion you can't tolerate, and we can't have that, can we now? Oh the agony!
unmole 5y ago
Does he use the browser for that? If not, how is it relevant?

wumms 5y ago

From Wikipedia: > On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserts affiliate referral codes when users type a URL of Binance into the address bar, which earns Brave money. Further research revealed that Brave redirects the URLs of other cryptocurrency exchange websites, too. In response to the backlash from the users, Brave's CEO apologized and called it a "mistake" and said "we're correcting". [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Insertion_of_referral_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Insertion_...

bigbugbag 5y ago

a browser who does not develop their own code base but reuse google's, with a business model based on monetizing users attention to ads network while pretending to protect privacy and block ads. I wonder what could go wrong here ? maybe their history of misbehaving with money and injecting affiliate links in users browsing or the security issues and leaks could give us a pointer or two.