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I’m a big fan of Brave. It blocks ads by default

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Eh, Brave has some things going for it, like its search engine which is apparently quite good. On the other hand its still chromium and thus legitimizes the Google Monopoly. Besides that, the crypto bs they have pushed in the past and the past monetary contributions to homophobic causes by the founder are a red flag as well.

For easy plug-and-play Librewolf and Mullvad Browser are probably the best. Although for most people it would probably make sense to enable specific cookies for sites they visit often so they stay logged in. Though there are probably easy tutorials for that online. Or, even better, use a password manager like bitwarden and install its respective browser plugin.

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Me too, since their adblock is natively implemented it won’t be affected by manifest V3.

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Even if its not affected by manifest V3 changes directly, we shouldnt forget what V3 means. It shows the direction that Google wants to take Chromium into, unsurprisingly. Google is an Ad company, making a browser that has ad-blocking or has forks (i.e. Brave) that focus on ad-blocking is against its very core goal. Manifest V3 could just be the start. We dont know what changes they have in mind that could be impossible to evade for comparatively small projects like Brave. Imagine important and big features and security updates shipped with spyware so deeply integrated that only a giant company like Google could implement it while making it impossible for any smaller company like Brave to divide. Brave would be dead over night.

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@00 @Monologue @DoctorForesight @suslord Would it be feasible for Google to close the source of Chromium and/or Blink or do they have licenses that prevent it?

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That is not a far-fetched future prediction. But as of now, Brave works just fine. No reason to stop using it now from what might happen. If SHTF, I’ll simply download something else.

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11 points

brave adblocker is not nearly as good as ublock0

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24 points

Brave is just chrome with a crypto scam stapled on

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8 points

I don’t understand why it’s so popular, I tried it out but it’s just chromium with an adblocker and the crypto thing added (Which is a pain to disable it completely). It’s not bad, but it is not as good as people says

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Charitable answer: because people are too lazy and/or incompetent to install browser addons, which is really very easy to do

Suspicious answer: astroturfing

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