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whotd uses brave (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I used to use brave when I just started becoming privacy aware. Here are the reasons why:

  • it's chromium based. I loved the way chromium based browsers looked, especially when compared to Firefox. They had a comforting feel to them, whereas Firefox had a very "office-ey" feel to it.
  • I wasn't aware of the issues of chromium dominating the market share that it does and how monopolization in this manner can be harmful.
  • I wasn't aware of the people behind brave.
  • I had seen older people use Firefox (with the default UI, which I didn't like). That's why, I associated Firefox with "old and outdated". I hadn't seen anyone use brave, and it looked quite good at the time for me.

Now, I use Mercury, a Firefox fork (ikik, it hasn't seen an update in a long time, shush). I've loaded it up with my custom CSS, so its appearance is exactly the way I like.

[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Mercury has had a open high criticality cve for almost a year and a half now, that is being actively exploited.

Either switch to Firefox or a fork that is actually being maintained, or just block your machine from the Internet.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

I agree with all you said, but suggesting to use a specific browser only when not connected to the web is kinda funny.

[–] umbrellacloud@leminal.space 1 points 3 hours ago

I personally disagree with homophobia but setting that entirely aside, Brave browser sucks, all the cool kids like Vivaldi now, and they're right

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Too many times people who have been monitoring or are deep in a field overestimate how much knowledge an average person or even newly interested person has in the same field (oh hey, there's an xkcd about that!).

People scoffing at anyone who thought Elon Musk was just a meme a nerd CEO before the cave thing, people who expect everyone to know who is running every browser, OS, or other company, and lots of other minor things they think should be common knowledge, when at the time it was something only someone invested in the overall field or someone who knew how search much better than the average person.