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Brave is a privacy-focused, de-googled chromium. It’s the best of both worlds. I never see anyone mention it here, so I’m a bit of a broken record explaining t
by braebo 1y ago
Brave is a privacy-focused, de-googled chromium. It’s the best of both worlds. I never see anyone mention it here, so I’m a bit of a broken record explaining this to hn’ers who missed the memo and are stuck on Firefox almost reflexively.
- mort96 1y agoBrave isn't any better than the rest, it's just riding a different hype train. It's a cryptocurrency browser because that's what was "in" when it was created. The issues laid out here more or less match my own reasons for disliking Brave: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/ https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/
- conartist6 1y agoI have it installed, but it doesn't feel like it belongs to me. They want to be making crypto wallets and and secondary advertising markets and AI search engines. Almost none of what they do provides any value to me over Chromium. Talk to me again if they ever get serious about anti-fingerprinting. AFAIK even their aggressive protections are woefully inadequate when tested on the Panopticlick