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stop. with. the. brave. bullshit.
Brave is a cult.
Brave is specifically a crypto based advertising company cult.
Crypto bros reskinned chrome, added some built in plugins, added their own crypto advertising tokens, and went all queerphobic.
Somehow a few people decided to build their identity around this. Anytime your bring up tech with them they try to sneak their cult-y Brave stuff in. It’s worse than MLM people at this point.
It was exposed so soon after it got popular, years ago, but people still act like it's so private and secure in the year of our lord 2025. I'm inclined to believe it's astroturfed.
Makes sense. Like only paid employees or dedicated cult members would produce such a recommendation chart. Brave Translate but no DeepL? Brave Talk but no Jitsi? Crazy.
Firefox has built in LOCAL translation but no mention of that. 🤷♀️
It seriously is. I see people on Privacy Guides and reddit that are adamant that it's amazing, which can be easily tested to not be the case.
Even when stripped down and hardened, Brave isn't magic, and reveals your canvas fingerprint data.
I've checked once on the fingerprint testing website how my firefox scores and brave just out the box scored way better. I have been considering to move to brave since then. Temporarily I settled on using firefox for casual web browsing and mullvad for shopping.
How's LibreWolf or Mullvad against Brave? Firefox doesn't have the best defaults.
I never understood it either. Like vanilla FF with some tweaks made it just as good (if not better) than Brave out of the box. We have Librewolf and Arkenfox too. Mull existed for Android, now we have Fennec and IronFox. I get that
about:configcan suck sometimes (I'm in a fight with it every month on IronFox 😅), but like follow a guide or two and you'll have Brave without the crypto and blatantly allowing "whitelisted" sites to stalk you.It's just unnecessary at this point...