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> Whats the current consensus on Brave? If you want to use Chromium based browsers it's probably the only browser that is: - Cares about security, (not doing
by dngray 4y ago
> Whats the current consensus on Brave?
If you want to use Chromium based browsers it's probably the only browser that is:
- Cares about security, (not doing stupid shit like disabling CRLSets), they are proxied by Brave. See https://qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/ https://qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/
- Does try to do some anti-fingerprinting, while its not a strong as Firefox+Arkenfox, it's at least a step in the direction as opposed to other browsers which don't even attempt to do anything about it
- Its a resourced fork with timely security updates, don't use small browsers which lag behind.
- Their shields thing aren't bad, they have a script blocker (a bit like noscript) too you can enable, that isn't an addon.
- h4waii 4y agoBy these measures of security, anti-fingerprinting, and privacy, both Bromite and Vanadium are far superior to Brave. Bromite is available on F-Droid, and unfortunately Vanadium is only available on GrapheneOS unless you build it yourself.
- dngray 4y agoVanadium and Brave are only available on Android. Vanadium doesn't really have any privacy features that people normally think of (anti-fp, adblocking etc), it's a series of security related patches https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/tree/12.1/patches https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/tree/12.1/patches Bromite does have some features like this https://github.com/bromite/bromite https://github.com/bromite/bromite, but we've found in experience the adblocker, is not as comprehensive as uBO, particularly in harder blocking modes https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium... That said for Android Firefox doesn't have the same process isolation like we see from chromium browsers. I still wouldn't bother with Brave on mobile when you've got Bromite though.