• Rocha@lm.put.tf
    15·
    1 year ago

    Idk what that guys is complaining about. I’m running Brave with also uBlock Origin (for the ads the native blocker doesn’t detect) and right now on Youtube the native ad blocker catches everything and runs just fine.

    • Nythos@sh.itjust.works
      132·
      1 year ago

      I’m going to paste a reply I got in regards to Brave and why you should change to a different browser

      1. Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.

      2. They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.

      3. They take from open source projects (uBlock, Chromium, etc), but threaten legal action when someone forks them.

      4. They install bloat/spyware on your Windows system (later claimed it was a mistake).

      5. Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.

      • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Youre forgetting the fact chrome/chromium has integrated their whole drm b/s recently. They want ad blockers to die, period.

      • Rocha@lm.put.tf
        21·
        1 year ago

        1. Don’t use Brave rewards, so don’t care.

        2. See 1.

        3. So like any for-profit company? Bad, but don’t care.

        4. It’s very brain dead to call the VPN service spyware. Besides, you’re on Windows, you have a lot more spyware to worry about first.

        5. Yeah, don’t care. If we go examining every company by if their leaders are morally good or not, we are gonna come very empty.

        But do you know what I care about? A browser that actually fucking works on mobile and doesn’t crash every other time I open it up.

          • slander@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            let the voting system do its thing, replying about the “ratio” is just about as vapid and cringe as you can get.

          • Rocha@lm.put.tf
            0·
            1 year ago

            If nobody cared, nobody would have replied in the first place.

            Also, must be sad to decide to engage based on the karma farm you’ll get, but good for you I guess…?

      • mintycactus@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago
        1. Check logs, with strict settings they block own domains. Even their telemetry is opt-in, not opt-out as other browsers do.
        2. Cryptoshit is a thing, but 100% opt-in. Accountless sync is real solution for privacy.
        3. False. Both Cromium and Brave borrow patches from each other, that is a nature of open-source. They sued someone using Brave branding, and some scam projects as well.
        4. False. That’s how Windows is made, VPN services installed are only manually started.
        5. That’s maybe even good, same-sex marriage is not normal for most people, but anyway that has nothing to do with browser, even if CEO eats childs on breakfast.
        • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s maybe even good, same-sex marriage is not normal for most people, but anyway that has nothing to do with browser, even if CEO eats childs on breakfast.

          What the hell is your problem? Reported.

      • im sorry i broke the code@sh.itjust.works
        23·
        1 year ago

        I’m going to paste a reply I got in regards to Brave and why you should change to a different browser

        just let people do whatever they want, wtf is wrong with you people

        It’s still better than using Google / Edge, and it’s basically the only good chromium alternative to the aforementioned browsers - reminder that stock chromium is not good.

        Beside, you forgot the most important point: they further the chromium monopoly, which while the engine is open source its codebase is too big so it is basically controlled by google

        Nitpicks:

        Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.

        You can disable all the ads.

        They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.

        Depending on whom you ask, it’s a pro or a cons.

        Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.

        See above.

        • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
          1·
          1 year ago

          just let people do whatever they want, wtf is wrong with you people

          How are they stopping them? They’re not. But if you think that opposing equal rights for LGBT+ people is a good thing, then you’re a massive piece of shit, and we’re morally obligated to call you out for it, openly and repeatedly.

        • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
          0·
          1 year ago

          Vivaldi is chromium based and far better than the alternatives imo. They’re openly anti-big tech, push the fediverse, and will be forking starting at manifest v3.

          • im sorry i broke the code@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 year ago

            It is still closed source nonetheless, which is a bit of a gimmick since nobody sane enough could read through most of a browser codebase anyway.

            According to this website it is less private than Brave by default, more or less like Firefox

            That said, I didn’t consider it before but I’ll definitely check it out later

            • boomzilla@programming.dev
              1·
              1 year ago

              AFAIK it was tested with the default setting set to no tracker- and ad-blocker. When enabling all the built in measurements it looks a lot better.