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What did brave accomplish that is worthy of advocacy? Shitcoin and ublock inspired adblock?

• cpburns2009 3y ago
  Two things. First, an Android browser that's as fast as Chrome (a reskin) with a built-in ad-blocker. Sure you can install uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android but it's noticeably slower than Chrome. Second, a continuation of the old Firefox spirit as a privacy focused browser. Firefox has since lost that spirit and has been chasing after Chrome since at least 57. The shitcoins are a passing fad. Just turn them off.
  • actualwitch 3y ago
    So you discount mozilla actually implementing and maintaining a separate multiplatform browser engine and a whole ass language for that and instead find more value in forking other people's work and adding rudimentary features on top of it? I would have imagined someone who used to be firefox advocate since 3.0 to be used to getting subpar performance.
    • cpburns2009 3y ago
      Rust is independent now, and Mozilla fired most of that team a while ago. Mozilla has little to show for raking in $500 million a year from Google. Firefox never was slow on the desktop in my experience. Chrome was faster for the first few years. SpiderMonkey always lagged behind V8 in benchmarks, but general performance of the browsers has been equal since the early or mid 2010s.
  • dartharva 3y ago
    > First, an Android browser that's as fast as Chrome (a reskin) with a built-in ad-blocker Bromite existed before Brave and was (still is, in the Cromite fork) better in every way.