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[–] [email protected] 391 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Forget the fox!"

... "Contains ads"

No, I don't think I will.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (11 children)

It's on Chromium so I will not use them

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[–] [email protected] 223 points 2 months ago (40 children)

Contains Ads

I don't know why anyone ever installed Brave

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's more, "may contain ads, if you opt-in to earning BAT."

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Make it

Contains a way to earn some kind of currency

So the browser itself is like an ad

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Brave still does include ads enabled by default. You need to disable sponsored images in the New Tab page.

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[–] [email protected] 210 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Brave? The browser that hides ads and substitutes their own? The one that keeps you private from Google AdSense so they can sell your data themselves? The one that keeps their Chromium build lean, so that you don’t notice the crypto miner running along side of it?

The fucking PayPal Honey of browsers? When the fuck did they ever look good? They’re like the “Banzai Buddy” of the HTML5 era

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They managed to piss off Tom Scott.

A thing I had not previously considered was possible.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have been using Brave for the last year and I did like it as a mobile browser. But today I noticed that when I was searching about abortion and etopic pregnancy (fact checking a really dumb article) that all of a sudden their AI crap was throwing "no results available" errors. I checked some other left leaning topics and sure enough it no longer gives you AI results. So I immediately uninstalled that shit from my phone because fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is not having AI results really a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago

Not at all. I never wanted to see AI and it kept turning itself back on this was just the final push for me to uninstall it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it's more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 months ago

Brave has never had a good look.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck Brave, it's based on Chromium and contains crypto BS.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

The same Brave founded by the anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI CEO that doesn't believe that gay people should have the same rights as straight people? Color me shocked!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Yep, Brave is the butt-hurt edgelord of browsers.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave 🤷 (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)

Edit: Oh yes, and the CEO's homophobia is not helping either...

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not very professional.

It's not the 90s and they are not rivaling fast food chains.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (12 children)

It's technically correct with all of these but extremely disingenuous.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Kind of funny they list their built-in, paid VPN as a positive feature and not a negative. Maybe they were running out of good things to say about... Themselves.

Granted, Mozilla also shot themselves in the foot by saying Firefox was better for not blocking ads by default, but that's a different story for a different day

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you could do this with anything

nazism:

-✅️ Very terrifying and intimidating uniforms

Every other ideology:

-❌️ Does not have terrifying and intimidating uniforms*

*According to opinions of career nazis

This is what Brave is doing 🙄

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago

"Was getting tired Brave, and noticed they mentioned Firefox in their ads. Was curious what that was and upon launching Firefox, immediately I felt something, my disappointment is no longer immeasurable, and my day is no longer ruined!"

brave = 0/5 🤮

Firefox = 6/5 😎

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

Daily reminder that Brave uses Chromium, an open source project where all the commits are approved or denied by Google devs.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

"Fire the Fox" would have been a better slogan

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Broke one of the golden rules of advertising (at least the advertising lessons I learned from an old advertising guy I knew a long time ago)

Never mention your competition in your advertising .... because every time you do, you've given them free advertising.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't know much about brave except that its chromium based and apparently removes web ads as its main feature. Why are they running ads? Why do I keep getting this browser recommended? How the fuck do they make money to be able to target me with this info? Something is off and I don't like it. I feel like the pressure to use brave isnt coming to me organically so I'm staying clear of it. I just have a bad feeling and I'll trust my gut on this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.

Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Its full of crypto bullshit as well, and they add their own ads too some pages that they pay you to watch (in a useless crypto)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Hahahhaah. If they are so desperate they are trying to knock off the 10 or so users on Firefox they must really be in dire straights.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Forget the Lion

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meh, they can shoot at Firefox if they want, but it's actually pretty good marketing for the Fox.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Iirc, it only comes up if you search for firefox. They could have changed it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Confirmed. They definitely paid to advertise under "Firefox" searches.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I got the same result, searching for Firefox on Play store

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

I ditched this crap years ago. Fuck this Trojan horse.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I never liked or trusted Brave for what it claims it fights for

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Guess you're outside the EU or something? Cause it looks different over here, Firefox isn't mentioned here. Also they're at 4.9 instead of 4.7 for some reason. Either way, fuck brave.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Oh wow! I need to install this ultra bloated version of Chromium.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How is it more private, when the browser is the one handling your data to show you ads, on top of the websites trying to do the same. So, extra ads? Wtf.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brave is also just essentially rebranded Chromium funded by an anti-LGBTQ+ & anti-DEI right-wing CEO.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Ungoogled Chromium flatpak

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Desperate much??

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