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I have been using Brave for about a year. Dont miss Firefox or Chrome.
by ksey3 3y ago
I have been using Brave for about a year. Dont miss Firefox or Chrome.
- dbish 3y agoBrave is built on chromium. Cool concept, but not a new browser
- k__ 3y agoThey often say they don't use problematic features.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoThey're still beholden to Google. Their own repo is a set of patches that disable some features. For now, it's mostly feature flags being turned on/off. What happens when Google starts being more hostile and makes disabling features harder ? Can Brave have the manpower to disable that, forever? What if there's a new rendering engine that's 10 times faster but it's so intertwined with a restrictive API that you can't have one without the other? Brave, for all their talk, are at Google's mercy. And no, don't give me "but Chromium isn't just Google anymore": it is 90% Google.
- goku12 3y agoThat's like people who don't like what Chromium does, but still uses it along with uBlock. It feels to me like the web needs another engine, not chromium reskins, to stay healthy.
- bjord 3y agoit'd be a step in the right direction if one of the "new" browsers trying to do cool things were using gecko (firefox's engine)
- goku12 3y agoI agree with the sentiment. But the main reason I have heard from browser builders is that Gecko isn't as easy to integrate as Blink. Nyxt browser, for example, is engine-agnostic. They still have trouble integrating Gecko. Servo, on the other hand, is designed with embedding in mind. They have picked up some pace after joining the Linux Foundation. Libweb (Ladybird's engine) is also a candidate. Let's hope that current situation spurs them on.
- bjord 3y agoI'd been under the impression that most of the useful stuff from servo had already been integrated back into gecko, but I just checked their git and was glad to see that development continues, despite mozilla's layoffs
- bjord 3y agoright, just problematic people to lead their efforts (brendan eich)
- k__ 3y agoFair. On the other hand, didn't he start the whole thing after getting kicked out of Mozilla?
- bjord 3y agopretty much—according to wikipedia, he resigned, though apparently moz actually tried to keep him around (just not as CEO, his appointment as which flagged the donations initially) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
- TheRoque 3y agoI have a serious question about Brave. I would be glad to use it, but I am a bit scared of the fat that it is linked to a crypto (I didn't dive in the tokenomics, but maybe the team is driven by the money ? or other shady things ?), and also the fact that I go ads for this browser. Getting an ad for the browser make me question: what are their incentives ? Why would they invest money to attract people ? What is their business model ? The fact that it's a for-profit, just like the other browsers (except Firefox), make me think that they might push things for money, not for the users despite all their claims of being so focused on the user safety, privacy etc.
- rvnx 3y agoMost likely: You will become their product that’s it. Be sold as part of their audience and then crypto-bros can invest into you and search advertisers will get you watching their ads so you will eventually invest into a token + have your local browsing history analyzed + your searches spied by their search engine (but it won’t be Google they promise, and they will keep their promise). At the origin, Brave was supposed to be an adware that replaces the ads of the website with theirs. Just pick your poison but all browser developers need money to live. The only way to be sure a browser works in your best interest would be if you accept to pay, and nobody wants to do that. See what has happened with Neeva.
- jadamson 3y agoThe crypto element is entirely optional and can be hidden with two tickboxes. Maybe they'll start pushing it harder, at which point someone will come along and fork it, and I'll have to copy my bookmarks over to the New Thing. It's an eternal cycle.
- ksey3 3y agoI have the wallet/bat token stuff turned off. Its not even turned on when you install Brave. The main reason I moved to Brave is Firefox's bizarre updating model on Ubuntu which causes it to randomly shutdown all the time. Plus on Android, brave just blocks a ton off ads, that firefox doesn't without extensions and fiddling about.
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- Xelbair 3y agoAnd which engine does Brave use? Take a wild guess.
- SgtBaker 3y agoBrave is just a privacy scam. And it's also Chromium based So you might as well be using Chrome.
- rhn_mk1 3y agoCan you show some sources for how Brave is scamming people out of privacy (or whatever else "privacy scam" means)?
- SgtBaker 3y agoSure. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff...
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- fsflover 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36983812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36983812