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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I don't understand when and why Brave became such a household name. It seems so many people use it and swear by it, but its reputation is "suspicious" at best.

Just use Firefox. It's been around way, way longer and it doesn't use the Chromium engine. Google doesn't need more of a monopoly on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

But what's wrong with non Chrome Chromium based browsers?

(Just give me downvotes, I don't care if my question is stupid)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a stupid question, some people just don't know.

Mainly it's because:

  1. Chromium holds too much market share which is bad for the health of the Web.
  2. Chromium is controlled by Google which is concerning because they have been known to plant trackers even in software that shouldn't have them.
  3. Chromium is inherently less secure, it contains features that might seem nice but are extremely risk to give access to websites i.e. letting websites access Bluetooth.

There are probably plenty more reasons but these are the big ones, and of coarse this is a simplification, in reality things are always a bit more complicated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Web dev here. Regardless of my opinion, I need to make sure my web projects work on chrome because of market share.

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