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Why I recommend against Brave.
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this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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tldr:
Librewolf users (totally not biased)
Please tell me you have the whole set. I have waited for someone to post this since literally 2018
Simply amazing
I do not but now wish I did
Thanks for the TLDR. Enough said, deleted Brave app. Firefox Focus is a good alternate.
I hear Vivaldi is pretty good too
I used Vivaldi for a while. It's still Chromium, so I would recommend against it. There's too many good Firefox options to use anything Chromium.
You should also add secretly whitelisted Facebook trackers in their adblocker, something they did a while back.
Yikes I didn't know they did that but I'm not surprised. There's a reason the people behind Tor say it should only be used via the official Tor browser, because only the Tor browser can provide that level of protection against those kind s of leaks, as well as much better fingerprinting resistance than chromium-based brave is going to give you.
Thanks for the summary.
It's so "weird" how the same kind of person who would be openly anti-LGBTQ would also make a such a sketchy product.
Those are good reasons to ditch a product. Yet, at the same time, inside the Apple ecosystem this is the only browser that allows cross platform watching of yt without any ads, therefore suffocating Google and the fat cat MKBHD influencers from income.
So it’s like an evil to tame another evil to me atm.
Of course the best path forward would be to ditch both Brave and yt and then just get Nebula/patreon or something for serious content browsing.
I’m curious though: if I just use Brace only with a few yt tabs open and never open the new empty tab or visit another site, does Brave get any revenue from me?