Good find here!
Using Brave + Duck duck go.
Using Brave + Duck duck go.
Any reasons not too?
Besides, the Basic Attention Token crap in Brave is kinda shady.
Or IceCat. Or, even better, original Firefox.
Firefox's internals are great -- it's never been faster or as stable, and for that we made real sacrifices like losing XUL extensions but increasingly I don't understand Mozilla's decision making.
EDIT: I understand many of the things I'm talking about can be fixed with about:config. I had a list of over 30 flags in my notes and it was becoming untenable to patch all my devices whenever a feature I needed was changed or removed. Whereas with Waterfox, I so far have only one about:config change:
dom.security.https_only_mode = trueYeah lots of (usually subtle-ish) incongruous actions.
Ignore the public messaging and work backwards from what they actually do to understand their real motivations.
I've written some other comments with my analysis on it if you're interests you can check my comment history.
I've only been using Brave for the last ~2months.
Edit: Also the manifest v3 thingy which made Ublock Origin operation restricted, also I think it prevented CNAME uncloaking. Idk whether Google went ahead with manifest v3 though.
"Ungoogled Chromium", while FOSS, have no good update method, and since i'm not going to build it myself, I don't have the same level of trust that something malicious hasn't been implanted.
Brave provides similar features to ungoogled chromium and I don't have to support Mozilla or Google and their practices.
Big issue is the trust factor. As well as all the Chrome zero days going out, not having security updates in a timely manner is risky.
"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold"
You put quotes around reputable and rightly so. Brave just bought a ton of clickstream data, harvested stealthily by another "privacy-focused" browser. When it comes to privacy, no, I don't trust Brave an inch.