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Ahh yes. Brave the bloated browser with very dodgy behaviour. You get a chrome fork with crypto shit, leaky VPN, ridiculously bad search, and a full blown ad engine that hijacks your notifications and tracks you in an 'anonymized' way. FUCK.THAT.SHIT.
Not to be antagonistic, but
So, basically, it's a chrome fork, and some people prefer chrome based browsers, so it's purely preference?
You know what's better than that?
The browser world that's not a chrome fork, and not full of crypto and AI SHIT, and without a bigoted CEO
Waterfox, Librewolf, Ironfox, Fennec, Ladybird, etc
Is ladybird even out? I saw something about it but I thought looking it up got me to something about it being set for some release this next year?
Still in very early alpha
Suggesting "very early alpha" software as a viable alternative is part of the problem.
Good news, all the rest aren't, they've been around for aeons
True!
The point is, that's a preference, not an innate 'better,' I generally use librewolf myself, but when the list of 'problems' with the browser is a set of optional things that you specifically have to turn on to experience, it's kind of like saying pizza is bad because you don't like pineapple, banana peppers, black olives, and chile flakes.
It's more akin to saying Hitler Pizza is bad because it was baked by Hitler, tbh
That's not how pizza quality works. You wouldn't eat a pizza with literal shit all over it and call it good because it was made by a saint.
Metaphor my dude. Metaphor
The main issues a lot of the FF purists on this site take with Brave is-
its a chrome fork, which is a hard stop for them, and thats a good enough reason alone to avoid a product given how anti-corporate and anti-google the residents of this site are.
the systems in the opt-in list are still part of the application. There is an anxiety that the developer may decide at a future time that those features are not opt-in/enabled by default after an update.
So the natural response is to advocate for browsers that simply do not have those features and are open-source so that users can verify rather than trust the dev team to not put features like that in the product. Or rigoursly vet every update installed on your system to prevent that stuff from being installrd in an update, which is not viable for most people... (Run apt update/upgrade and manually approve every package change, we will see you in a few days).
Also the homophobic antivaxxer CEO, don't forget that
Thank you for at least giving a sensible response rather than irrational anger.
Still seems odd to say software is bad for having features one doesn't use rather than not having features one does want, but... *shrug*