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Why not Brave and Alternative to Brave. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Harry_h0udini@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org
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I've been seeing a lot of people hate and uninstall Brave. Why? It's not like they're tracking us or doing anything else shady. If so, what's the privacy alternative?

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[–] sculd@beehaw.org 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

  1. Say no to chromium. Use Firefox and its forks. Even Safari (webkit) maybe a better choice to support a healthy web environment.

  2. Say no to crypto. I hope I don't need to explain this one. If you have to use Chromium browsers for whatever reasons, use Vivaldi.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

I think it's better to phrase the crypto part differently. Because crypto is a great tool for privacy, while Brave's crypto crap is just annoying.

[–] brie@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

since we're on the FOSS community, I'd recommend using Ungoogled Chromium since Vivaldi isn't fully open source.

[–] sculd@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Ungoogled Chromium is a great choice. I just hope it can auto update itself. 😅

Also I once encountered an anti-virus programme miscategorize Ungoogled Chromium as malware. It can be annoying for those uninitiated.