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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've mostly been using the chromium-based Brave Browser which is Chrome without the advertising engine plus a built-in adblocker. Requires going through the settings once to enable that. There's a very decent android-only browser that does much the same, called Bromite. (Brave has a mobile version but Bromite is developed from scratch for Android, and is stable & supported).

I hope this helps someone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave is a marketing browser masquerading as a privacy browser.

Just use Firefox. Mozilla is a nonprofit and Firefox is open source. It's really not hard to switch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Firefox is made by Mozilla Corp., which is for profit. Brave is fully FOSS as well. And Mozilla as a whole is a useless, unless we're talking about their ability to take Google's money (money which comes from Google ad businnes, in the end), raising the CEO paycheck and firing devs and making FF shittier with each forced update.

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

I just checked. Mozilla has both a non-profit and a for profit division.

Both support Firefox.

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

FF is developed by the for profit Corp.

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