• Samsy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Can’t believe people always use this crypto-spam browser.

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        2 months ago

        I use it for school shit because they don’t work with iceraven(my preferred mobile Firefox fork)

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      2 months ago

      Brave and Firefox are very competitive when it comes to pushing unnecessary “features” on their users. (Remember when Mozilla bought an NFT and AI company to put a shopping toolbar in their browser?)

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        2 months ago

        Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.

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          2 months ago

          I’m just speaking on the two most popular browsers according to the survey - LibreWolf is in a league of its own for sure.

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      2 months ago

      Well, it does do a fantastic job of removing ads and reducing fingerprinting.

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        2 months ago

        So does Librewolf. What’s the benefit of brave? Chrome-based? Checked chromium from time to time and don’t think chrome is superior over Firefox.

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          2 months ago

          Neither do I. I use Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox.

          Brave has its own content blocking system, which is on-par with uBO and better than uBO Lite. I tested it myself a while back, and Cover Your Tracks, Fingerprint.com, and CreepJS indicated that it was incredibly difficult to fingerprint: moreso than Librewolf, but slightly less so than Tor/Mullvad.

          That said, however, PrivacyTests.org indicates that Librewolf blocks more tracking technologies than Brave, so it’s possible things have changed since I last experimented with browsers other than Tor and Mullvad.