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submitted 11 months ago by sapo@beehaw.org to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] KingPyrox@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Can someone inform me what's wrong with the brave browser?

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 23 points 11 months ago

It's chromium and the company sells telemetry data to advertisers. It's quite literally doing the thing it draws users in with.

[-] KingPyrox@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Is Firefox not also using chromium?

[-] gullible@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

No, Firefox is entirely distinct from chromium.

[-] KingPyrox@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I did not know this, thank you.

[-] Teon@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Firefox does not use Chromium. However, people get confused because when you mod FF you change the userChrome file with CSS.
FF has had that file name even before Google had a browser.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

Firefox uses their own engine, Gecko

[-] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

What? I agree with a lot of the Brave criticism and don't think they're perfect by any means, but saying they "sell telemetry data to advertisers" is just false and a completely baseless claim.

[-] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 11 months ago

Chromium based (which may be a pro or con depending on who you ask).
Their CEO has made homophobic political donations and resigned from Mozilla due to backlash for it.
They have been caught doing shady things like inserting affiliate links into the address bar suggestions.
They use their browser to push their crypto currency, news and other garbage.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I was ok with 1 and opted out of 3 and 4 but had no idea about 2

[-] KingPyrox@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hahaha I use their crypto to buy crypto I want so that's the reason I asked in the first place. But I guess I'll go back to Firefox, which is the browser I prefer anyways.

These reasons are definitely an eye opener.