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In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.

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[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Brave hates gays

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 4 points 4 hours ago

"we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect"

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 19 points 14 hours ago

Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it's less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago

talk about bad taste

[-] markinov@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 13 hours ago

Recent firefox policy change is controversial, but how brave is better?

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 31 points 18 hours ago

They should've picked LibreWolf which ships with uBlock Origin. Brave is a disappointing choice because it supports multi-level marketing pyramid schemes which says enough about their moral compass.

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[-] Peasley@lemmy.world 83 points 22 hours ago

“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"

[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago

Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would've expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.

[-] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Zen is literally the best browser around right now, I do understand the UI isn't for everybody but if you vibe with it, it rocks

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Y not gnome web

[-] Unmapped@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I'm actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it had brave installed. I would immediately switch.

[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago

Brave is a fairly recent outlier, and while it isn't quite proprietary, it stinks a fair bit of something capitalist/crypto.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 32 points 22 hours ago

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 21 points 23 hours ago
[-] Allero@lemmy.today 28 points 1 day ago

Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 148 points 1 day ago

While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.

[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago

As a Librewolf user I wouldn't make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that's still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.

Waterfox would be the better choice since it's just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla's spyware.

[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

there’s Zen also. that also has normie defaults, however the drastically changed UI/Uxmight not be for everyone.

[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 15 points 1 day ago

Agreed, I wouldn't recommend Librewolf for casual users. I understand why Librewolf makes those decisions, and I'm glad that it exists, but you definitely run into some quirks when using it. I'm thinking about switching from Librewolf to Waterfox myself.

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[-] lumony@lemmings.world 38 points 1 day ago

Blech. I'd downvote this because I disagree with their decision, but I'm glad you brought this to our attention.

[-] azron@lemmy.ml 114 points 1 day ago

How is brave the lesser of those two evils?

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago

It isn't.

Brave sucks Google balls.

[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 37 points 1 day ago

Crypto scam browser is never a better evil...

[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago

Based on absolutely nothing, I feel like it isn't..

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago
[-] commander@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago

That's a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS

[-] funbreaker@kbin.earth 20 points 1 day ago

I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.

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