Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
from dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 03:27
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Pantherina@feddit.de on 16 Feb 2024 00:04 next collapse

Damn didnt know it was that bad.

They also lack any documentation about how to use their policies on Linux (where you can disable all the bloat). But it should be doable, I will give it another try.

Is the browser even FOSS? Can you compile a working version yourself?

I do that with Firefox and it is really cool.

batman654987@lemmynsfw.com on 20 Mar 2024 02:51 next collapse

This is bulshit, didnt have to say aything in tehnical aspect of the browser so he continyed to tras some people that work on that project, probably false…

NorthCountryHermit@lemm.ee on 24 Mar 2024 14:58 next collapse

These browser wars are funny. It’s not like you have a real choice anyways. You get either some sort of Chrome, with it’s various problems. Or you get some sort of Firefox… which has it’s own host of issues. The rest of the competition is so far behind that it’d take a miracle for them to enter the mainstream.

Shilling for any particular browser is pathetic.

Veedem@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 03:44 next collapse

Just use Firefox.

AlbinJose6723@eviltoast.org on 18 Aug 2024 02:56 next collapse

It’s not good tho 🙃

FatCat@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 07:24 next collapse

Firefox and mozilla aren’t your friend.

They like to play the “user and privacy friendly” company. Meanwhile they are hemoraging users, and laying off staff needed to actually build a great browser.

Mozilla ceo pay increase + layoffs in 2020:

In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008. On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated “I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That’s too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.”

In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 03 Sep 2024 21:45 collapse

What’s the alternative though, we have Chrome and Firefox as choices. Chrome is far worse than some issues with Firefox around CEO pay.

ex_redditor@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 2023 06:13 collapse

With brave I never see any pc or YouTube ads. With Firefox even with ublock origin I can’t get rid of those damn ads. That’s what keeps me on brave

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 03 Sep 2024 21:46 collapse

No ads on YT with Firefox + uBlock, not sure why your setup isn’t working.

AlbinJose6723@eviltoast.org on 18 Aug 2024 02:56 next collapse

Brave sucks!

realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club on 03 Sep 2024 20:50 next collapse

I thought this would bring up serious issues with the browser but it’s just…the creator doesn’t support gay marriage, the browser isn’t an adblock hardliner, and it has built-in crypto support?

lollllllll

batman654987@lemmynsfw.com on 25 Jan 2025 12:53 next collapse

This is bulshit, i dont decide will i use a browser depending on who works on it, but depending on the browser itself.

So insted of looking at browser itself this dude sugests we should look at people that work on it and asume the browser is bad if someone working on it is bad which is blindfolded deciding and its nonsense.

So if you have malicios intent and dont have to say anything bad about the browser itself concretly and tehnical because if you lie there, many people that know how it is will say no it doesnt work that way here how it is than you just trash people that are working on it whic is wery hard to veryfi is it trye or not. And probably it isnt…

So when we discus open source software there is no need to talk about writers of the code much because we can discus the code itself and tell concretly if something is bad. Exactly which line and why its bad.

Anything else is just made up and malicios.

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 02 Feb 2025 13:26 next collapse

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Darioirad@lemmy.world on 23 Apr 2025 19:21 collapse

But how can i replace the built in function of youtube playing music on mobile in the background? Please give me an alternative

dantheclamman@lemmy.world on 23 Apr 2025 19:31 collapse

Newpipe?

Darioirad@lemmy.world on 23 Apr 2025 19:54 collapse

Thank you!!! Any chance the app supports a ‘random-but-personalized’ music suggestion feature? Like the playlist finish and it keeps playing based on your previous content

dantheclamman@lemmy.world on 23 Apr 2025 20:37 collapse

Honestly not sure. There are other such third party YouTube players, I’d suggest searching around for newpipe alternatives and I bet one of them will suit your needs