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Browser itself: Has a Chromium base which means a bunch of nice things: It just works better nowadays because devs make everything for Chrome and barely care f
by soundnote 4y ago
Browser itself:
Has a Chromium base which means a bunch of nice things: It just works better nowadays because devs make everything for Chrome and barely care for anything else. Chromium's native tab groups rock. Chromium means separate browser profiles and PWAs, which I like to have. I think Chromium's mobile UI is better.
Those are mostly just benefits of stock Chromium, but:
Sane defaults (eg. not defaulting to Google + search suggestions on). The browser has a built in uBO grade adblocker that also works on mobile and doesn't care about Manifest v3, like Mozilla, they run an independent end to end encrypted sync service for bookmarks/settings/history/etc. You get the good of Chromium without the bullshit.
Brave specifically: YouTube video background playback on mobile, they're working on vertical tabs, tons and tons of nice privacy features. I think being able to adjust video Autoplay is Brave-specific, but not sure.
Organization:
Mozilla as an organization is funded by Google, and is completely okay with others deciding what I should see on the Internet. It also just generally seems more interested in activism than browser building.
Brave from the get go tries to have independent sources of revenue (ie. their ad business, and now paid services like Brave Talk and adfree Search).
They are an organization that itself doesn't have politics except for user control and privacy, which is an increasingly rare attitude and I like a lot.
Brave maintains an independent search engine that has its own index rather than being a simple Bing frontend the way most other small engines are, and it supports DDGs !bang syntax. Plus Goggles are cool.
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In short, they don't do anything exactly revolutionary - they just focus on making a browser, and make a browser with very little bullshit.