Use chromium build from source ? It's the least if you want something chrome based. https://chromium.woolyss.com/
If not, use firefox. It's still good for everyday task.
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I think a lot of pro-Brave people are astroturfers, or heavily influenced by astroturfers. They are definitely not a first choice by any privacy advocate worth their salt.
Also, the Brave defenders in this section… holy moly.
Some folks simply cannot admit they made a questionable choice. They picked it and use it, so everyone else must be wrong.
I’ve met people like this in real life.
It’s because no-one knows any alternatives.
If one wants a Chrome-based browser that isn’t Chrome, Brave is the highest-profile one by orders of magnitude. Next is a bunch of high-SEO scamware before honest projects like Vivaldi or Helium are even a whisper.
…So I don’t really blame folks for using Brave. They aren't omniscient, and an honest effort to avoid Chrome is still a positive.
I don't blame folks for using it.
I do blame folks for not reading up before recommending it.
Thats obscure information, too. It’s reasonable to not know.
I draw the line when Brave's awfulness is pointed out, linked, with alternatives presented, yet the Brave user digs in their heels and takes criticism of their browser choice personally. That is just ego.
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I’m still mystified as to how Brave took any market share. I thought there’s two camps: people who care about browser privacy and people who don’t. The latter crowd stay with Chrome or whatever their PC comes with. The former crowd…did I miss a memo on what was wrong with Firefox?
Because they pumped out ads for it and paid astroturfers to promote it like crazy. It's not really that surprising. There are laws against deceptive advertising but they rarely get enforced, and when they do, it's usually a slap on the wrist. Which is how Brave can lie about browser privacy, get popular, and never get called out for lying in any meaningful way.
With Firefox, presumably compatibility, AI stuff, and a string of lesser Mozilla controversies, I guess?
As for Brave, I think you're underestimating people. They don't want to be tracked, they don't want to see ads. They won't necessarily go seek a solution out, but if a one-click solution to fix that presents itself in front of their eyeballs, they might try it.
I mean I'm open to other mobile browsers if you have suggestions. On my actual PC I use Mullvad and Librewolf.
IronFox seems to be highly recommended elsewhere in the comments but I don't browse on my phone, I just use the default Vanadium, which is Good Enough™.
Brave Browser Mobile has adblocker - a good adblocker, at that, since I've never had problems with Youtube's anti-adblock measures. Sucks that the people who run it suck, but the people who profit from ads probably (in a net sense) suck even more.
IronFox does look pretty good too, though. Never heard of that.
Yeah that was one of the original selling points for me. Being able to use YouTube without ads, play audio with phone locked and YouTube actually works better on the browser than the app.
FireFox on mobile has ublock, that beats any other browser imo
And sponsor block
- Fennec
- IronFox
- DuckDuckGo Private Browser might be good too
- Firefox might have anti-features, but should still be better than Brave
- Chromium should also be better than Brave, but i usually discourage people from using chrome based browsers, because using them strengthens googles monopoly
I've been using Waterfox and it's been pretty good
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