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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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The writer is proposing Vivaldi, a closed-source browser, as an alternative to Brave, which is free and open-source. I think a better alternative would be Ungoogled Chromium.
Or.... Firefox
Sure, but Firefox uses a different engine. On my systems, I always have both: a Mozilla-based browser as primary and a Chromium-based browser as secondary. If a site doesn't work on one, it'll work on the other.
I'm against ungoogled-chromium. I used it for a while and it feels like someone took a sledgehammer and smashed up all the Google parts without cleaning up afterwards. I stopped using it mainly because of security concerns.
What security concerns?
Poor site isolation and sandboxing means an attacker could access sensitive information much more easily through Firefox than Chromium.