I wouldn't touch it on the account of it's crypto stuff.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2023
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It's a different platform, you won't participate in the monopolization of Chromium as the only browser worth building webpages for.
Google Chromium and install uBlock Origin
AFAIK you'd have to do some tweaking under the hood to achieve the same effect, particularly when it comes to de-coupling Google from Chrome. My impression is that you'd be closer to Brave if you started with Chromium or even Ungoogled-Chromium.
One problem with LibreWolf is that it has very weak security. The exact same goes for FF and other FF based browsers.
The Chromium monopoly sucks tho.
Edit: grammar. :p
What's this about weak security? Do you have something to read about that?
From the same author as one of the best linux hardening guides: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html
Then get off the internet, none if it is secure.
Generally speaking is true that our security standars are incredibly low and that's becoming more and more dangerous as time goes. Even moreso in our hyper-digitalized society.
But I fail to understand what does that have to do with the fact that FF is less secure than Chromium. May you develop, please?
Can you go into more detail about Librewolf having weak security? This is news to me.
Compared to Chromium.*
Not only LibreWolf but every FF based one.
You can check out this article since it explains it better than me: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html
While it's not about the most recent version most if not all of its points are still true.
@SrEstegosaurio @coldhotman why does it have weaker security than Chromium browsers?
Edit: saw this in the comments: madaidans-insecurities.github.…
Guess whenever Google rolls out the update to disable tracker blocking as we currently know it, we'll be firmly able to answer this question. It's unclear to me if this will impact Brave but if it doesn't then this will show Brave was worth the hype more or less I think.
Edit: I love FF but something's just run better on chromium, I have FF as default with Brave as a back up
Well, what Google wants to introduce is a completely arbitrary limit to the number of filtering rules, so increasing that constant in the code should be no trouble at all.
Having said that, ad blocking effectiveness is lower on Chrome-based browsers already today: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
Padding those flaws out or offering similar functionality to uBO in their custom ad blocker, that does take some effort.
Nope. You are fine. Not missing shit. Only plebs rave about how awesome it. The only thing it could possibly have going for it are privacy focused defaults (maybe?)
All browsers are disappointing, and I don't think the market is capable of producing a good one.
The web itself has become a disappointing place to be honest. (Obviusly we stil have cool sites here and there but I mean generally.)
I don't trust brave but it does have features out of the box that no other browser has:
- web torrents
- Tor in private tabs
How does Brave Tor compared to the regular Tor browser? It is just work as the same or is there few stuff they added to make it much better?
I'm not too sure sorry, I haven't really used it much other than testing it out when I found out a about it.
I would imagine you have less control over specific Tor settings, but I am not 100% sure.
Do not use it. Use only the Tor Browser since it's designed to make all users look the same. (Preferrably inside of a Whonix VM.)
I've been using Brave since it was based on ~~Gecko~~ Muon, and all it's worth is ad-blocking by default. If you know how to install uBlock Origin, Brave won't offer you any advantages.
Brave was never based on Gecko. (Originally it was based on (a fork of) Electron! 🤣)
My bad, it was Muon. No idea why I wrote Gecko
Sometimes I need Chromium. I always want an ad-blocker, though. So the two best choices are Vivaldi and Brave.
Vivaldi is closed-source, which is bad. But it has a lot of good customization options, and is transparent about its monetization.
Brave is open-source, but tries to get you into crypto junk. You can turn that off, but you have to do it for every different machine.
I currently use a combination of Librewolf and Vivaldi. But my setup shifts around a lot.
Brave search provides an .onion instance, so I would say no
https://search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion/
I'm more on about Brave the browser, not really on about their search engine which they made