I care about my privacy, though I like it’s UI. Is it really as bad as some say?
It has an opt in option to sell ad space for some of its crypto. Some people just are offended that the option is even there.
because that effectively make them an advertising company.
Advertising online is incompatible with privacy, there’s no reconciliation between the two. And whoever tells you otherwise, is an advertiser.
Some people dont see it as a black and white issue.
Does firefox lose its privacy status if it takes google money and makes the default search engine google search?
Definitely yes. Firefox is not private as provided by Mozilla. You have to use a custom user.js to disable all the tracking, or install a Firefox based browser like Librewolf or Mullvad Browser.
Unfortunately there’s ads in Firefox too, and they’re opt out instead of opt in. I’m certainly not a fan of it, but outside of LibreWolf until servo becomes a thing I think should be right but we’re stuck choosing lesser of multiple evils.
Stop using chromium.
Yea I don’t think it’s bad for privacy, just there are better options out there which get you the same privacy while also addressing other issues? Issues like Chromium, history of controversies and shady behaviour (crypto, replacing ads with their own), the business model, and issues with the CEO.
Instead, why not just use standard Firefox? The only downside I’ve heard is that the default settings don’t do what Brave does when you first install each browser, but that’s a weak argument considering we all modify the settings anyway. Someone should just outline which Firefox settings should be flipped to match default Brave, and we can be done with the weekly ‘Why not Brave’ discussions
I use Firefox as my daily browser, and run Mullvad browser when I need to be cautious with a task.
Any suggestions for someone who has multiple clients who solely support Chrome-only for their products so I have to do all my testing in Chrome (or Brave, Vivaldi, etc.)?
In some cases their apps straight up don’t function in Firefox or look substantially different and I’m not really allowed to bill for the time to address that.
And it is because of these lousy developers that live inside a Google world that people don’t want to use Firefox.
No, brave is not bad for your privacy. There has been some controversie but no dealbreaker so far imo.
If you’re on mobile I think brave has hands down the best UX (not necessarily UI but I like it a lot), on desktop I recommend firefox, which has a lot of custom themes to choose from (https://firefoxcss-store.github.io).
I personally like and use https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
I like Firefox mostly because it’s cool to have engine competition. I mostly use the default dark theme. It looks good enough for me. I don’t look much at the top when browsing.
On android it’s still lagging behind the chromium competition. And having mismatched browsers isn’t great for syncing. So I just use Firefox on android too, good enough.
Tho, if miss matching wasn’t an issue, personally I think I would use Kiwi browser. It’s an open source chromium browser which supports chrome extensions.
It’s less about whether any individual thing they’ve done has been bad, more that they keep doing things and keep doing thm in sneaky ways. Every time something happened the CEO went on a marketing campaign and drummed up a bunch of new users to drown out the news story. They come across as shady, which gives the impression that it would take a relatively small sack of money for them to sell their users up the river.
Brave is better than some out of the box, but far from the best. I’d say Mull is better for mobile, which is a Firefox fork. It has a companion Android System Webview called Mulch.
AFAIK no, but if someone has to say something about privacytests’s results (bad methodology? inconclusive?) I’m interested to know
the page and the tests are run by a brave employee. That’s what I have to say.
Not saying the tests are false. The code is available. I’m just saying that the factors that the tests evaluates and the page layout, is heavily biased towards Brave. Is that a coincidence with the author being employed by Brave? I don’t know.
They don’t like the guy.
