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Use librewolf . I use librewolf and Brave browser if needed .
Why brave? I see a lot of seemingly tech savvy people using brave, and I don't get it. Edge or chrome can do the same, in terms of rendering, and you don't need to have software associated with Palantir installed.
May I present to you the hypocrisy of Lemmy?
Boo proprietary software, boo crypto bros
But brave? Insert spongebob wallet meme
I only use Brave when some site is genuinely broken on Firefox and actually needs Chromium. I only do this because of its built in ad blocker. I'm open to other suggestions. My default is Firefox.
Vivaldi is pretty neat, but as far as I understand it's a closed source Chromium browser. Its my back-up one for when Zen(/Firefox) is having issues with a page, which thankfully is infrequent.
The main reason I steer clear from Brave is because of its founder (former Mozilla employee) who has donated to an anti-gay bill among other things.
when it came to credit cards, i decided against trusting brave and its attention tracking crypto currency fabrication. tried edge to that point too. Ditched it a few days later. had a cult feel as does many softwares. firefox can't fill in a cc form so not thrilled with status quo. if a site won't work with my browser+ad-blocking tweaks, fuck that site. brave wanted to be a new crypto currency and felt like a pump and dump waiting to happen. IE always tried to use feature lock-in to force loyalty. run away. there's always lynx.
do you have better alternative chromium based but privacy friendly?
I don't know how "privacy friendly" the Chromium branded chromium browser is. But if I had to use a chromium browser, and Edge wouldn't suffice, that's where I'd look. Brave would probably be last on my list of browser choices, because I don't even trust the installer to not give me a little bit of Palantir flavored malware. And that's to a degree that I wouldn't even run it in a VM on my daily driver.
https://7sees.substack.com/p/heres-why-i-dont-trust-brave-browser
If I wanted to spy on privacy minded individuals, who are harder to spy on than the average person, then I'd launch some privacy product, work up the hype, and have it spy for me. I could have formulated that idea before Brave was launched. Seeing how Brave is associated with Palantir, to me it's already fishy. And when it's main selling point is privacy and conducts themselves exactly like I would have expected a malicious actor to do, then I just don't use Brave.
Thank you for the information.
We need to test our web code in Chromium browsers. I dont know how much percetange of Users use Chromium-based browsers