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Is Brave Browser currently as privacy disrespecting as some say? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by wtry@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I care about my privacy, though I like it's UI. Is it really as bad as some say?

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[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why does this topic keep coming up?

Anything. 👏 Chromium. 👏 Based. 👏 Is. 👏 Bad.

If you give a shit, you'll suck it up and change to Firefox or Mull. If your excuse for not doing so is UI based, your convenience is more important than your privacy.

[–] Baketime@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a better alternative on Android? I've tried switching to Firefox a few times but it feels way too slow. Scrolling and zooming (I do a lot of zooming on mobile) feels unusably choppy.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks smooth to me. In fact, as the only Android browser afaik that has support for ublock origin, Firefox is the only usable mobile option IMO.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Seconded.

Mull is a Firefox fork that's even more privacy oriented and still can sync with your FF settings.

[–] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox typically is pretty smooth even on my tablet that has 2gb of ram and a quad core arm processor.

[–] virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shh, nobody mention that half your apps are probably rendered in chromium.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

yeah I have 2 apps on my computer that use electron

discord and balena etcher