I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever.
Brave was already ousted as spyware in the past and the company has made many decisions that are questionable at best. For example, Brave made a cryptocurrency which they then added to a rewards program that is built into the browser to encourage you to enable ads that are controlled by Brave.
Edit: Please be aware that the spyware article on Brave (and the rest of the browsers on the site) is outdated and may not reflect the browser as it is today.
After creating this cryptocurrency and rewards program, they started inserting affiliate codes into URL’s. Prior to this they had faked fundraising for popular social media creators.
Do these decisions seem like ones a company that cares about their users (and by extension their privacy) would make? I’d say the answer is a very clear no.
One last thing, Brave illegally promoted an eToro affiliate program making a fortune from its users who will likely lose their money.
Edit: To the people commenting saying how Brave has a good out-of-the-box experience compared to other browsers, yes, it does. However, this is not a warning for your average person, this is a warning for people who actively care about their privacy and don’t mind configuring their browser to maximize said privacy.
Used to use Brave, but it became more and more bloated as time went on. Also, I realized that I wasn’t opposing Google as I wanted, but choosing an alternative of Google, as brave is still based on chromium. I enjoy Firefox very much now (don’t know about the performance issues people talk about at all cause it seems better than all chrome, brave, opera, and opera GX I used in the past) although I’m looking into even further simplifying and privatizing that. Any suggestions for modified Firefox browsers that keep the functionality would be appreciated.
I use Librewolf, I’ve enjoyed it and it’s very privacy-centric.
LW is awesome because its Firefox but security hardened out of the box. Instead of spending an hour or more doing it manually with default fox, you can just use LW. Huge fan. The step up from there would be mullvad browser , then tor imo
Tor is basically in it’s own league, but not something made for daily driving. I’m sure there’s people that do, but it’s not exactly the best experience.
Thanks for the rec! I’ll check it out
Hi! I’m interested. Does librewolf push updates fast relative to Firefox?
Normally same day or next day.
Ohhhh great. I’ll give it a try today! Personally I’d love mullvad browser but I really need dark theme and the browser should not be changed
Firefox used to have performance issues, as of 6 months ago Firefox runs faster than Chrome.