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YSK that some internet browsers respect your privacy. Some internet browsers don't.
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Is this an ad for Brave?
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2026
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Considering the guy who runs that site is a brave empoyee, yes.
Hell nah Brave is awful
Brave had a massive bug where Tor sessions were leaked to ISPs. Ain't no way im trusting something like that in 2026
How come Brave can interfere with Tor sessions?
Brave has the functionality to access Tor sites. To ba fair,as far as I remember, Brave devs called against using this function for privacy sensitive browsing and added it more as a bonus to access a given resource.
Ah, yes, I should judge the browser by whether it strips arbitrary query parameters from links by default, because there's no way that'll break something, and if it uses encrypted DNS by default when... "connecting from Brazil", because that's definitely a good test of a browser.
Say it with me.
Brave 👏 owns 👏 an 👏 ad 👏 network. 👏
Also, the homophobia.
It's worse than an ad network; it started out as a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. "Sure would be a shame if we MITM'd your ads and didn't share a cut with you because you wouldn't help us legitimize our funny munny."
If its chromium, i dont want it.
Also, the homophobia.
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This is an ad for Brave. The creator of this site is Arthur Edelstein who is employed by Brave. 🙄
I am so sick of “privacy guides” that subtly try to push a crypto bro ad company browser.
Brave is a crypto bro run ad company whos CEO is openly anti LGBT+.
The OG poster is a 12 day old account with a lot of submissions to try to hide that. I could easily write a bot to do the same to give “credibility”.
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Is this a fucking ad? Seriously?
It is. I posted elsewhere but will do so here for visibility.
This is an ad for Brave. The creator of this site is Arthur Edelstein who is employed by Brave. 🙄
I am so sick of “privacy guides” that subtly try to push a crypto bro ad company browser.
Brave is a crypto bro run ad company who’s CEO is openly anti LGBT+.
The OG poster is a 12 day old account with a lot of submissions to try to hide that. I could easily write a bot to do the same to give “credibility”.
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I like how librewolf has more green checks than brave but brave is shown first like it's the best. really shows the biases of the authors
Edit: lmao hoisted by my own petard, it's just in alphabetical order and I just hate brave. Tbf fuck Brendan Eich.
It's just in alphabetic order
But who controls the alphabet?!
sundar pichai i think
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Shhh, there has to be a secret agenda to everything!!! Let me have this, lemming! 🥺
According to the other comments, the website is by Brave (or at least a Brave employee) so kinda, yeah...
Oh I'm all for shitting on Brave, and I didn't bother to give this list a look anyway because Librewolf is my goat. But that's so fucking cringe lol. It's a shame that so many websites, including Privacy Guides where I essentially started my journey into FOSS and learning about alternatives to Big Tech, recommend brave. Like if someone TRULY had to use chromium, I'd tell them to just stick with Ungoogled, as I don't know enough about Vivaldi. But like that should be an absolute last resort choice.
But the main issues was the commentor didn't notice it was Alphabetic lol.
I've been using helium as a secondary/Chromium browser, and it's pretty neat.
Time for my Firefox clone, AAAAArdvark.
Mullvad seems to be the big winner, which I'm very torn about.
Mind educating us on this one? The Brave skepticism is well covered in the comments already but your take isn’t.
Its cofounder, Daniel Berntsson, funding far right political parties in Sweden with substantial amounts of money. So 🖕 him and 🖕 Mullvad.
I love how there's continued bias confirmation that the main people who are crazy about privacy end up being right-wing shitheads.
Almost like if you irrationally care about privacy it usually means you have something to hide.
Now don't get me wrong, I love my privacy too, but Jesus Christ people. It doesn't mean we can't ask for better but we are all using computers here. We are all on The Internet. There is no privacy. Stop lying to yourselves and saying there is.
You want privacy go in a locked room and talk to someone in person.
I would say the "cofounder"/"CEO" factors are the main contributor factors that enable the "shithead" quality in each case, rather than the "care about privacy" factor. 😅 That's my personal take.
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Brave is a crypto scam disguised as a reskinned version of Google Chrome
Serious people use literally anything else. At least Google is honest about its spyware
Why does Firefox have an ❌ next to "Insecure website setting"? It very much does warn you. There's even an "HTTPS-only" setting that allows you to completely block insecure websites from loading.
I think it's because you have to enable it first?
That's my point. It should have a green ➖ next to it instead. An ❌ implies that the feature doesn't exist.
It's an ad for Brave. They are going to lie about their competition.
So we should be suspect about libre wolf clearly being ball handled by brave in this graph then?
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Firefox and Safari both have insecure website warnings, don’t know why they have X’s there
Librewolf is the GOAT.
There it is... Firefox and DuckDuckGo... unbeatable combo.
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