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Can't believe people always use this crypto-spam browser.
Same, I was surprised brave is so popular.
I use it for school shit because they don't work with iceraven(my preferred mobile Firefox fork)
I use it to pirate sports streams and thats pretty much it. It just works better than Firefox for some reason.
Probably because it's chromium based and the sites are chromium optimized
That's my opinion at least
Brave and Firefox are very competitive when it comes to pushing unnecessary "features" on their users. (Remember when Mozilla bought an NFT and AI company to put a shopping toolbar in their browser?)
Comparing brave and fire fox is like comparing librewolf and chrome. When people suggest using a privacy browser other than brave, they’re not saying “just use fire fox”.
I'm just speaking on the two most popular browsers according to the survey - LibreWolf is in a league of its own for sure.
Well, it does do a fantastic job of removing ads and reducing fingerprinting.
So does Librewolf. What's the benefit of brave? Chrome-based? Checked chromium from time to time and don't think chrome is superior over Firefox.
Neither do I. I use Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox.
Brave has its own content blocking system, which is on-par with uBO and better than uBO Lite. I tested it myself a while back, and Cover Your Tracks, Fingerprint.com, and CreepJS indicated that it was incredibly difficult to fingerprint: moreso than Librewolf, but slightly less so than Tor/Mullvad.
Also, check out PrivacyTests.org
WebHID support which some webapp configuration tools need to function
Chromium is generally more secure than firefox.
Sources?
Wow I got downvoted a lot on that I thought it was a generally agreed upon fact. Source (graphene os)
I still use firefox btw because I prefer it for many other reasons but chromium is definetely more secure.
GraphaneOS founder has fetish for Chromium and he hates F-Droid 1
tldr: he accuse f-droid not being secure and citing this bs post https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ and he promotes accrescent.app
here is some examples:
So I take everything GraphaneOS says with a grain of salt
daniel micay:
holy shit that's batshit crazy. is there any proof this actually happened?
You can check their disinformation campain https://lemmy.zip/post/59060122
ok troll I'm debunking your whole operation this is not shithub you can't have a free hand here
https://lemmy.zip/post/59060122
Edit: Added fresh link with many more proof
Dan Micay is infamous for false and baseless accusations leveled at other groups of people, including everybody from Louis Rossman to the Calyx and F-Droid teams. If making verifiable statements is considered harassment, how much more harassment has he been doing?
And Micay is especially guilty of that himself. Here he is libeling/slandering/attacking the F-Droid team, accusing them of coordinated raid.
https://x.com/DanielMicay/status/1497625862409175041
https://archive.is/o7Mdg https://archive.is/1iSi1
Tweet's still up.
Where is the evidence of this so-called coordinated raid? It's not in this Tweet. Without evidence, this is the exact same kind of baseless coordinated FUD attack that he accuses others of.
One source from a sadly biased author. I am honestly too lazy to aggregate some numbers for CVEs to find out what's the truth but I am sure that it is not an inherent quality of chromium to be more secure.